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At the outbreak of the Civil War, Deringer traveled to Washington, D.C. with a sample rifle in July 1861 and offered to furnish 500 to 600 rifles to the Ordnance Department.

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On April 6, 1766, Joseph Manton was born in Grantham, England. By the time he was 23, Joseph had opened up a gun shop of his own.

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Black powder revolvers are fun, but loading them isn't always the case. Reloading is a snap with paper cartridges and making them is a snap.

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Colt handguns ruled the pistol market in the 1800s, especially their percussion revolvers. With an open mechanism that was both elegant and very resistant to black powder fouling–not to mention Samuel Colt’s brilliant marketing– Colt handguns were legitimate fighting handguns. By the time of the American Civil War (1861-65), the US military’s standard issue pistol […]

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