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Pin fire cartrages
A pinfire cartridge is a type of firearm cartridge in which the priming compound is ignited by striking a small pin which protrudes radially from just above the bottom of the cartridge. -
First Shotguns
in 1850 shotguns became more traditional and popular. -
The Crimean War
lasting from 1854-56 the Crimean War was the last known war to utilize muskets. -
Smith and Wesson's first revolver
useing a longer rimfire case and more black powder to fire a bullet ment that it had a larger stopping power than regular hand held weapons at the time. -
The first rim-fire cartridges.
Rimfire is a term used to describe a method of ignition for firearm cartridges. It is called rimfire because the firing pin of a gun strikes and crushes the base's RIM to ignite the gun powder opposed to the mordern pin fire with the percussion cap in the center of the bottom of the round. -
Repeating Carbine
around 1860 war was changed with the first semi automatic rifles, enableing soilders to reload faster than before. -
Gatling gun
Invented by Richard Gatling, it is known for its use by the Union forces during the American Civil War in the 1860s, which was the first time it was used in combat. Later it was used in the Boshin War, the Anglo-Zulu War.
