Historically with pirates, their solution was as you suggested below (but because of reload time, not misfire), carry a bunch of pistols, fire, drop, and draw a new one :-)
dwarf gunfighter favored class---every four levels your chance of misfire goes down one
by level 8 you have negative 2 to your misfires---buy two reliable double barrel pistols (dont need greater reliable) and you will NEVER misfire by level 8 even with alchemical cartridges
you can get the misfire to 0.
look at
Reliable effect it reduces the misfire value of the affected firearm by 1 (minimum 0).
Greater Reliable effect it states that It reduces the misfire value of the affected firearm by 4 (minimum 0).
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Dwarf with a reliable weapon is your best bet. You will probably want a distance weapon as well because doubling the range at which you target touch is nice. While TWF with pistols if fun my favorite is musket master with rapid shot and ricochet shot. So a +1 Reliable Distance weapon will run you 18,000gp which shouldn't be that much fame, probably 6th or 7th level.
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Instead of maximizing how may attacks you get each round, you could instead focus on making one attack per round and hitting as hard as you can with it.
This means that instead of dual wielding pistols and weapon cords, you can instead get a musket or even a culverin or the like and focus on things like Vital Strike, Dead Shot, and so on. You can forego alchemical cartridges to save a few gold and keep your misfire chances down, and probably take Improved Critical to up the odds of that "one big hit".
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for my musket master I'll be getting improved critical, and using the grit thing where you do one massive shot.
Dead Shot (Ex): At 7th level, as a full-round action, the gunslinger can take careful aim and pool all of her attack potential into a single, deadly shot. When she does this, she shoots the firearm at a single target, but makes as many attack rolls as she can, based on her base attack bonus. She makes the attack rolls in order from highest bonus to lowest, as if she were making a full attack. If any of the attack rolls hit the target, the gunslinger's single attack is considered to have hit. For each additional successful attack roll beyond the first, the gunslinger increases the damage of the shot by the base damage dice of the firearm. For instance, if a 7th-level gunslinger firing a musket hits with both attacks, she does 2d12 points of damage with the shot, instead of 1d12 points of damage, before adding any damage modifiers. Precision damage and extra damage from weapon special abilities (such as flaming) are added with damage modifiers and are not increased by this deed. If one or more rolls are critical threats, she confirms the critical once using her highest base attack bonus –5. For each critical threat beyond the first, she reduces this penalty by 1 (to a maximum of 0). The gunslinger only misfires on a dead shot if all the attack rolls are misfires. She cannot perform this deed with a blunderbuss or other scatter weapon when attacking creatures in a cone. The gunslinger must spend 1 grit point to perform this deed.
Gunslinger: Reduce the misfire chance for one type of firearm by 1/4. You cannot reduce the misfire chance of a firearm below 1.Knew I had read that somewhere.
aye you cannot use four more levels of gunslinger to reduce it to zero. BUT you can use the reliable magic to get the final neg 1 to take it to zero.
double barrel pistol with alchemical cartridges is 3 misfire
dwarf gunslinger favored class every four levels takes it down 1
so level 8 dwarf takes it down to 1
now a level 12 dwarf can not use the favored to take it to 0
but you can simply buy reliable pistols and take it down to zero