Rabu, 11 Oktober 2017

Smith & Wesson’s Model No. 3 Six-shooter Was an Innovative American Classic

It was the first U.S. large-caliber revolver made for metallic cartridges. One of the few positive side effects of the four years of bloody battle during the U.S. Civil War was that the massive demand for guns and improvements in them created the greatest technological advancement in firearms in 200 years. In little more than …

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