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unusual facts about pepperbox revolver



Pistol

The forerunner to Samuel Colt's "Revolving Gun" - the name he originally gave his invention on his 1836 patent - the pepperbox revolver, developed in the late-18th century, became a somewhat-common style of pistol by the mid-19th century, but was superseded by the lighter-weight and more-compact Colt-type (single-barrel) revolvers, in which the firing chambers rotated separately from the barrel.


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