Hand Gun Story
A firearms expert traces the history of the 'one hand gun' from its 14th century origins . . . surveying changing technology, techniques, and design (Midwest Book Review). Ideally suited for both attack and self-defense, handguns have gotten smaller and deadlier. But the earliest pistols had a tendency to misfire. This was cured by the cap-lock, which proved a massive success in the American Civil War, with hundreds of thousands of cap-lock revolvers used on each side. Self-contained metal-case cartridges were to bring a fundamental change to handgun design: not only by allowing the introduction of revolvers that ejected automatically or we…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-78346-974-1
- EAN: 9781783469741
- Produktnummer: 22582390
- Verlag: Frontline Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 0 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 35'872 KB
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