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    The Colt New Model revolving rifles were early repeating rifles produced by the Colt's Manufacturing Company from 1855 until 1864. The design was essentially...
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  • M1819 Hall rifle Cimarron Firearms Colt's New Model revolving rifle Henry rifle Rifles in the American Civil War Sharps rifle Volcanic rifle "Guns of the...
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  • American Civil War Colt Lightning rifle Colt's New Model revolving rifle Spencer repeating rifle Winchester rifle Evans repeating rifle "Tales of the Gun:...
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    Colt's Manufacturing Company, LLC (CMC, formerly Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company) is an American firearms manufacturer, founded in 1855 by...
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  • alongside the Colt second model ring lever rifle (preceded by the first model ring lever rifle, Samuel Colt's first manufactured firearm), the model 1839 was...
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    The Colt first model ring lever rifle and Colt second model ring lever rifle are two early caplock revolving rifles that were produced by the Patent Arms...
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    made by the Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company In the revolver configuration of the patented revolving mechanism, only one model of the revolver...
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    The Colt Paterson revolver was the first commercial repeating firearm employing a revolving cylinder with multiple chambers aligned with a single, stationary...
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    heavy-barreled version of the Officers Model Match and was based on Colt's medium Iframe. It was offered in .22 Long Rifle and .38 Special chamberings. Manufactured...
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    government service revolver trials of 1872 by Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company (today known as Colt's Manufacturing Company) and was adopted as...
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  • magazine gun: A percussion revolving rifle to which was attached a loose-powder-and-ball magazine patented in the US in 1837. Colt ring lever rifles (1837)...
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    Continental Army; one of Colt's earliest possessions was John's flintlock pistol. Colt's mother died from tuberculosis when Colt was six years old, and...
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    A rifle is a firearm designed to be fired from the shoulder, with a barrel that has a helical groove or pattern of grooves ("rifling") cut into the barrel...
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  • The Colt Infantry Automatic Rifle 6940 (commonly shortened to Colt IAR or IAR6940), is a Light machine gun designed by Phil Hinckley and manufactured by...
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  • 1847 Pocket Model of 1849: 1850 Pocket Navy and Pocket Police: 1861 Colt revolving rifle (US – repeating rifle – 1855) Colt ring lever rifle (first and...
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    Revolver (redirect from Revolving gun)
    barrel and a revolving cylinder containing multiple chambers (each holding a single cartridge) for firing. Because most revolver models hold up to six...
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    Remington later experimented with them as well. The Colt Revolving Rifle Model 1855 was an early repeating rifle and the first one to be used by the U.S. Government...
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    The Colt Walker, sometimes known as the Walker Colt, is a single-action revolver with a revolving cylinder holding six charges of black powder behind...
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  • Henry rifle (Lever-action; .44-26-200) Spencer rifle (Lever-action; 56-56 (.52-45-350)) M1863 Springfield M1861 Springfield (.58) Colt revolving rifle (Colt...
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    Derringer (redirect from Colt Derringer)
    Rimfire Deringers until 1870 when it was acquired by Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company. Colt continued to produce the .41 Rimfire Deringer after...
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    magazine pistol. Pirmet-Baucheron revolving rifle: In 1822 a French gunsmith called Pirmet-Baucheron presented a revolving rifle with 7 shots and a single lock...
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    Single-shot (redirect from Trapdoor rifle)
    1873 with the adoption of the Springfield Model 1873 rifle and .45-70 cartridge. The Springfield Model 1873 rifle stayed in service until 1892 when it was...
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    government service revolver trials of 1872 by Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company – today's Colt's Manufacturing Company – and was adopted as the...
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    .44 Magnum (category Pistol and rifle cartridges)
    Wesson Model 29 .44 Magnum. It has even been used against elephants with success. In addition to beating the ballistics of the old .44-40 rifle loads,...
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    legislators had to list specific models of guns or characteristics such as pistol grips on rifles, flash hiders, folding rifle stocks and threaded barrels...
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  • Springfield model 1873 rifles and carbines 1874 Sharps rifle and carbines 1876 Winchester "Centennial" 1883 Colt Burgess 1884 Colt Lightning rifle 1885 Winchester...
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  • their way onto the battlefield. Though the muzzleloader percussion cap rifled musket was the most numerous weapon, being standard issue for the Union...
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    Spanish–American War. A four-gun battery of Model 1895 ten-barrel Gatling guns in .30 Army, made by Colt's Arms Company, was formed into a separate detachment...
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  • Buntline Model (United States – Navy Arms/Colt's Manufacturing Company – unknown date – single-action revolver – .357 S&W Magnum, .45 Colt: variant of...
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  • pump-action rifles BSA experimental model 1949 Remington 7600 Single-shot Break-action Rolling block Falling block Repeating Revolving Bolt-action Lever-action Self-loading...
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