Volley gun

A volley gun is a firearm with more than one barrel where the barrels are designed to be either fired in succession or simultaneously. Two common variants of volley guns are the pepperbox pistol and the duckfoot pistol, representing the former and latter firing patterns respectively. Guns of this type constituted an early attempt at designing firearms for multiple discharges without reloading and predated the development of s.
==Description==
thumb|200px|Six-barrel pistol of the French Assassin Arno Dorian.
Prior to the 19th century, conventional firearms could only fire one round before needing to be reloaded. The vast majority of these firearms operated via the flintlock mechanism which required a lengthy procedure of priming the weapon and down the powder, wadding, and shot to reload. This severely impeded the rate-of-fire of early firearms, especially when compared to the more ancient and simpler bow.Assassin's Creed III
Gunsmiths of the 18th century sought ways to rectify this issue, and the most obvious solution with the technology they had was to simply incorporate additional barrels onto firearms, resulting in the invention of the volley gun. Volley guns are guns, most often pistols, which are designed with more than one barrel so that its wielder may fire more than one shot before having to reload the weapon. They come in two variants: those which fire the barrels in succession and those which fire the barrels simultaneously with one trigger-pull.
thumb|left|200px|Three-barreled duckfoot pistol.
Initial designs of the former led to the Double-Barrel Pistol, but ambitious gunsmiths continued to create guns with increasing number of barrels, culminating in the popular pepperbox pistols. The Gold-Plated Pistol, an example of a pepperbox pistol, boasted as many as nine barrels.Assassin's Creed: Unity
Volley guns which fire all barrels simultaneously came to be known as duckfoot pistols, for their conspicuous and overbearing barrels gave it a profile not unlike that of the webbed feet of ducks. These barrels spread out at different angles, thereby producing a scatter shot effect when fired, and in this respect, duckfoot pistols were precursors of the .
==History==
Volley guns became common in markets across Europe and its colonies in the Americas after the Seven Years' War.Assassin's Creed III: LiberationAssassin's Creed: Rogue The basic Pepperbox Pistols and Double-Barreled Pistols were a mainstay of stores in New Orleans from at least 1765 to the end of the century. Duckfoot pistols arrived in the general stores of British colonial cities like Boston and New York in 1773 and double-barrel pistols in 1777 during the American Revolution. By the time of the French Revolution, many variants of pepperbox and duckfoot pistols were produced and sold in Parisian markets.
Eventually, firearm technology advanced and rendered volley guns obsolete. By the latter half of the 19th century, self-reloading firearms which can automatically chamber new cartridges with each trigger-pull had been invented. These took the form of revolvers and other semi-automatic guns.Assassin's Creed: Syndicate
==Weapon statistics==
===Colonial Louisiana===
Name 	Magazine	Short range damage	Long range damage	Cost	Persona
Double-Barreled Pistol	 	 	 	 	
Pepperbox Pistol 	 	 	 	 	
===American Revolution===
Name 	Rate of fire	Short range	Long range	Cost	Availability
Duckfoot Pistol 	 	 	 	 	
Double-Barrel Pistol	 	 	 	 	
French Coat Pistol 	 	 	 	 	
Royal Pistol 	 	 	 	 	
Naval Duckfoot 	 	 	 	 	
===French Revolution===
Name 	Level	Damage	Parry	Speed	Range	Clip Size	Cost	Modifiers	Requirements
Officer's Pistol 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Over Under Pistol 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
American Flintlock 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Pepper Shot 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Arno's Pistol 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Three-Shot Duck Foot	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Gold-Plated Pistol 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Five-Shot Duck Foot 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
==Appearances==
*Assassin's Creed III
*Assassin's Creed III: Liberation
*Assassin's Creed: Unity
==References==
Category:Firearms
Category:Types of firearms
Category:18th century weapons