My POSSLQ and I visited the House on the Rock a few weeks back. I'd never been there before, and I hadn't known much about it.
Among the myriad artifacts and constructions were a number of single-barreled long guns with multiple flint lock actions. I'd seem multiple locks on multi-barreled guns, but I'd never seen multiple locks on a single-barreled gun.
Were these ever actually in use, or is this just another example of Alex Jordan's warped sense of humor?
The place has a wide variety of firearms on display, some of which appear as if they could be authentic:
And some of which are clearly whimsical:
But those triple-locked guns struck my eye. There were a bunch of them, in many variants - different styles, different periods, some clearly works of fancy, and some looked like something someone found in an attic.
Was anything of this sort ever actually used?
