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    The Volcanic Repeating Arms Company was an American company formed in 1855 by partners Horace Smith and Daniel B. Wesson to develop Walter Hunt's Rocket...
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  • The Winchester Repeating Arms Company was a prominent American manufacturer of repeating firearms and ammunition. The firm was established in 1866 by...
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    was renamed Volcanic Repeating Arms in 1855, and was financed largely by Oliver Winchester. In 1856, the partners left Volcanic Repeating Arms to begin a...
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  • with Volcanic Repeating Arms for eight months. Volcanic Repeating Arms was insolvent in late 1856, after which it was reorganized as the New Haven Arms Company...
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    to "Volcanic Repeating Arms Company" in 1855, with the addition of new investors, one of whom was Oliver Winchester. The Volcanic Repeating Arms Company...
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  • formed a corporation, the Volcanic Repeating Arms Company, to manufacture Smith's modification of the Hunt-Jennings, the Volcanic lever-action pistol and...
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    Oliver Winchester (category Winchester Repeating Arms Company)
    stockholders and acquired the S&W division, better known as the Volcanic Repeating Arms Company, in 1855. By 1857, Winchester had positioned himself as...
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  • Volcanic Brown, one of the many nicknames of Robert Allan Brown (c. 1849–1931), a Canadian mining prospector and speculator Volcanic Repeating Arms,...
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    developed in the 1850s and the guns using it were sold primarily by Volcanic Repeating Arms. Hunt's Rocket Ball cartridges were severely under-powered and...
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    commercially successful firearm, culminating in the Volcanic Repeating Arms Company. The Volcanic cartridge went one step further, adding a primer to...
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  • Usel caseless cartridge, 6mm Usel caseless cartridge) Volcanic Repeating Arms Rifles Volcanic Rifle (United States – unknown date – lever-action rifle...
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  • revolver – 1894) Vetterli rifle - (Switzerland – rifle – 1867/1869) Volcanic Repeating Arms (US – rifle & pistol – 1855–56) Walch Revolver (US – revolver –...
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    Company in Norwich, Connecticut, to develop Volcanic Firearms, in 1855 the company was renamed Volcanic Repeating Arms and was sold to Oliver Winchester. As...
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  • troops in June 1876. Modern replicas are produced by A. Uberti and Henry Repeating Arms in .44-40 Winchester and .45 Colt. The original Henry rifle was a sixteen-shot...
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    to "Volcanic Repeating Arms Company" in 1855, with the addition of new investors, one of whom was Oliver Winchester. The Volcanic Repeating Arms Company...
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    of fire to six times that of muzzle loading weapons. In 1854, Volcanic Repeating Arms produced a rifle with a self-contained cartridge. In 1849, Claude-Étienne...
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  • The Spencer repeating rifles and carbines were 19th-century American lever-action firearms that were invented by Christopher Spencer. The Spencer was...
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    A repeating firearm or repeater is any firearm (either a handgun or long gun) that is capable of being fired repeatedly before having to be manually reloaded...
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  • Hartford, Connecticut. Horace Smith and Daniel B. Wesson form the Volcanic Repeating Arms Company in New England. California Gold Rush (1848–1855) Bleeding...
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  • success. Benjamin Tyler Henry invents the Henry rifle, the first reliable repeating rifle. Richard Jordan Gatling invents the Gatling gun, capable of firing...
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    the Volcanic pistol were designed before the American Civil War[citation needed] , but the first significant designs were the Spencer repeating rifle...
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    development were repeating firearms, which could fire multiple times before reloading. However, for a number of reasons, repeating firearms did not see...
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    air rifle, first produced in 1779. The first mass-produced repeating firearm was the Volcanic Rifle which used a hollow bullet with the base filled with...
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    consensus is that the main cause of the extinction was the flood basalt volcanic eruptions that created the Siberian Traps, which released sulfur dioxide...
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  • "Bear-ly There" February 13, 2012 (2012-02-13) Items appraised include a Volcanic Arms pistol; a World War II United States Navy gas mask; a framed letter...
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  • they start special training. Ken and the Red Impulse commander keep repeating the exercise of quickly pulling up with their planes. The other four watch...
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    eruption of Walker Volcanics. A coarse green grey rhyodacitic intrusive with white prominent feldspar crystals appears between the arms of Lake Ginninderra...
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  • attacked the city. Though Jaco regains custody of Watagashi, he ends up repeating the same mistake that led to the parasite's escape. 75 29 "Goku and Krillin...
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    referring to a weapon specifically as breech-loading is mostly limited to non-repeating firearms, including single-shots, derringers, double-barreled shotguns...
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    European treble while being the top scorer in all three competitions, repeating Johan Cruyff's achievement with Ajax from the 1971–72 season. However...
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