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Pistols used for dueling
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The crucial invention that enabled muzzleloading firearms to fire reliably in any weather.
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Flint lock guns are in general use.
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The mechanism that allows trigger us.
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First revolver.
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A pinfire cartridge is an obsolete type of metallic firearm cartridge in which the priming compound is ignited by striking a small pin which protrudes radially from just above the base of the cartridge.
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The telegraph worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations.
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Shotgun: a weapon that fires moltipel pleats with one trigger pull.
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The last war to use only muzzle-loaded guns.
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Rimfire is a method of ignition for metallic firearm cartridges as well as the cartridges themselves.
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The Spencer repeating rifle was a lever-action, seven shot repeating rifle with a rotating block.
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A breech-loading weapon is a firearm in which the cartridge or shell is inserted or loaded into a chamber integral to the rear portion of a barrel.
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The Gatling gun's operation centered on a cyclic multi-barrel design which facilitated cooling and synchronized the firing-reloading sequence.
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A centerfire cartridge is a cartridge with a primer located in the center of the cartridge case head.
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A line of revolvers that uses cartridge bulets
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Best lever action rifle for the time period
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Native American forces led by Chiefs Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull defeat the U.S. Army troops of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer in a bloody battle near southern Montana's Little Bighorn River.
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The Colt M1877 was a double-action revolver manufactured by Colt's Patent Fire Arms. With a double-action revolver you cood fire without coking bake the hamer.
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A magasin that could be removed from the weapon.
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Handguns can now be fired as fast as you can pull the trigger.
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