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|name= History No. 2 Revolver
|type= [[Black powder]] [[revolver]]
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...Lee]]), as well as a series of revolvers by [[Colt's Manufacturing Company|Colt]] and [[Smith & Wesson]] for the Army and Navy were adopted just in that de
...omhandle"]]), Mannlicher (the [[Steyr Mannlicher M1894]]), and Colt (the [[Colt M1900]]).
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...]] crews) found the full-size rifles too cumbersome, and [[pistol]]s and [[revolver]]s to be insufficiently accurate or powerful. Submachine guns such as the [
...greater range, accuracy, and effective [[stopping power]] than the [[M1911 Colt pistol|M1911A1]] pistols currently in use. The M1 Carbine was intended for
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...e first gas-operated machine gun was the [[M1895 Colt-Browning machine gun|Colt-Browning M1895]].<ref>[http://www.nationalgunsmithsassociation.com/famous_g
...in gun]]s in reference to their driving mechanism. [[Gatling gun]]s and [[revolver cannon]] have several barrels or chambers on a rotating carrousel and a sys
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...CP cartridge became widely available. The term "ACP" stands for "Automatic Colt Pistol". This cartridge was among the first automatic pistol cartridges to
...echanism to its pistol, but did not add the magazine safety mechanism that Colt introduced in 1916.<ref name="PSA">[http://www.precisionsmallarms.com/histo
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...o his successful [[M1911 Colt pistol|M1911 U.S. Army automatic pistol]] to Colt's Patent Firearms, and was therefore forced to design an entirely new pisto
...version featured the removable barrel bushing and takedown sequence of the Colt 1911.
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