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Either way, St. Louis gun dealers appreciated George Elgin’s weapon. Except for the first multi-barreled pepperbox pistols of the late 1830s, and before Sam Colt began marketing his five- and six-shot percussion revolvers in 1836 and again in 1848, almost all pistols were single-shot or double-barreled. Their owners usually carried these pistols in pairs to …
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