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2 unusual facts about revolver


National Arms Company

Short (a round it introduced in 1863), and Daniel Moore and David Williamson's Pocket Revolver using the Caliber .32 Teat-fire cartridge (which it made under both the Moore and National Arms marques).

Spectre of the Gun

The landing party also sees their equipment is changed: phasers have turned into six-shooters, communicators and tricorders are missing, and there is no longer a way to make contact with the Enterprise.


.38-200

Webley demonstrated a lighter version of their Mk III revolver with modified .38

.442 Webley

Introduced in 1868, the .442 (11.2mm) Webley round was used in the Webley RIC revolver.

.475 Linebaugh

Linebaugh is an extremely potent rimmed revolver cartridge developed by John Linebaugh in the late 1980s.

1868 in Australia

12 March — Henry James O'Farrell fires a revolver into the back of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh (second son of Queen Victoria) while the latter is picnicking in the beachfront suburb of Clontarf.

1978 in Singapore

25 April – Police national serviceman Lee Kim Lai was murdered for his revolver by Ong Chin Hock, Yeo Ching Boon and Ong Hwee Kuan.

Alessandra Celletti

Her rendition of the First Gnossienne was chosen by British director Guy Ritchie for the soundtrack of his movie “Revolver” (2006).

Alfred von Kropatschek

was a General in the Austrian Army and a weapons designer of the late 19th century, who was responsible for several rifle and revolver designs in affiliation with the Steyr Mannlicher; these weapons were used by the armed forces of the Austrian Empire and several other nations.

Angel Taylor

Angel's recording career began when she sent an email to producer Mikal Blue who has also worked with Colbie Caillat, Brendan James, and Jason Reeves and this resulted in an invitation to his studio, Revolver Studios.

Automatic revolver

In 1997, the Mateba company developed a type of recoil-operated automatic revolver, the Mateba Unica auto-revolver, which uses recoil energy to auto-rotate a revolver cylinder holding 6 or 7 cartridges, depending on the model.

Bossu Revolver

The Bossu Revolver was a revolver of Belgian origin manufactured by Manufacture d’armes LEPAGE.

Colt Buntline

The Colt Buntline Special is a variant of long-barreled Colt Single Action Army revolver that author Stuart N. Lake created while writing his 1931 biography of Wyatt Earp.

Daisuke Jigen

A master of many different firearms, such as revolvers, machine guns, sniper rifles, and even a PTRS Anti-Tank Rifle, his preferred weapon is a Smith & Wesson Model 19 Combat revolver kept in a fabric holster attached to his belt in the back.

Dewar Trapshooting Trophy

Dr. Ashley Webber, the expert revolver and live bird shot, who lived at 168 North Sixth street, was the recipient of the Dewar trophy, representing the Interstate amateur champion live bird shot.

Doctor Robert

When Mojo released Revolver Reloaded in 2006, part of a continuing series of CDs of Beatles albums covered track-by-track by modern artists, "Doctor Robert" was covered by Luke Temple.

Dreyse M1907

The Dreyse M1907 appeared in the earlier versions of the board game Cluedo, mislabeled as a revolver.

Ella usó mi cabeza como un revólver

After being released in 1995 "Ella usó mi cabeza como un revólver" became one of Soda Stereo's better known songs together with "De Música Ligera".

Fittja metro station

The station has a copy of the Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd world famous bronze sculpture "Der Knoten im Revolver", a symbol of non-violence originally made in memory of John Lennon.

FN Baby Browning

The halt to exports to the USA in 1968 was dictated by the Gun Control Act of 1968 which was precipitated by Robert Kennedy's assassination involving an Iver Johnson made revolver and signed into law by then President Lyndon Johnson.

Georgi Peev

In 2008 he was chosen the fans favorite player of the Russian Premier League and received a rare revolver from 1936 used by the Red Army.

Gerald Mason

After his release in 1957, then aged 23, he hitchhiked his way to California, stopping in Shreveport, Louisiana where he purchased a revolver using an alias.

Hec Ramsey

He still carried a firearm, but had traded his low-slung "gunfighter" rig for a Single Action Army-type revolver with a short barrel, carried in a Cavalry draw holster.

Herod's Law

Seeking help from his superior, the secretary to the PRI governor, he is given a copy of the constitution of Mexico and a revolver and is told that the only law is Herod's law: literally translated: "either you get fucked or you get buggered." (O te chingas o te jodes).

Iver Johnson

Presidential assassin Leon Czolgosz shot and wounded U.S. President William McKinley in Buffalo, New York on September 6, 1901 with an Iver Johnson .32 caliber Safety Automatic revolver (serial number 463344).

Sirhan Sirhan shot and killed Presidential candidate United States Senator Robert F. Kennedy in Los Angeles, California on 5 June 1968 with an eight-shot Iver Johnson .22 caliber Cadet 55-A revolver (serial number H-53725, Trial-People's Exhibit #6, misidentified in trial testimony as S/N H-18602).

John Barlas

Possessing both fragile mental health and intense emotions, Barlas was arrested on the morning of New Year's Eve, 1891 after walking to Westminster Bridge and firing a revolver three times at the House of Commons, apparently to show his contempt for Parliament.

Lynwood Drake

The shooting started shortly before 6 p.m. at a house in Morro Bay, California where Drake killed 80-year-old Andrew Zatko in the presence of his live-in companion Gladys Walton, by shooting him in the throat at close range with a revolver.

Marine Region

Smith & Wesson Model 10- Standard issue sidearm for Marine Region (except Small Boat Division), 6 shot .38 revolver.

Nguyen Van Lem

Using his personal .38 revolver, General Loan summarily executed Lém in front of AP photographer Eddie Adams and NBC television cameraman Vo Suu.

Nikunj Malik

Nikunj Malik is doing her first Bollywood film Revolver Rani with Kangana Ranaut.

Operation Almenrausch

Titlestad and Arne Taraldsen were security people, armed with a revolver and machine gun.

Rio de Janeiro school shooting

S&W Long"?title=Rossi">Rossi snub-nosed revolver belonged to a man who died in 1994 and according to his son, it was stolen from him by the time of his death.

Robert H. Paul

Paul fired his ever-present shotgun and emptied his revolver at the robbers, wounding a Cowboy later identified as Bill Leonard in the groin.

Rory Calhoun

At age thirteen, he stole a revolver, for which he was sent to the California Youth Authority's Preston School of Industry reformatory at Ione, California.

Ruger Bisley

This was in turn inspired by the classic 1894 Colt Bisley revolver, so named after the famous English shooting range at Bisley which was the site of many notable shooting matches in the late 19th century and is still in regular use.

Ruger Security Six

The Ruger Security Six and its variants, the Service Six and Speed Six are a product line of double action revolvers introduced in 1972 and manufactured by Sturm, Ruger & Company.

Secret Honor

Armed with a loaded revolver, a bottle of Scotch whisky and a running tape recorder, while surrounded by closed circuit television cameras, he spends the next 90 minutes recalling, with rage, suspicion, sadness and disappointment, his controversial life and career in a long monologue.

Secret of the Incas

Throughout Secret of the Incas, the main character, Harry Steele, can be seen wearing the "Indiana Jones" outfit - brown leather jacket, fedora, tan pants, an over-the-shoulder bag, and revolver.

Silver Center

Samuel Colt developed the revolver and Samuel Morse invented the telegraph; John William Draper in 1840 took the first photograph in the United States in the original Main Building that the present structure replaced.

Sir Edward Hulse, 6th Baronet

His body was discovered in his bedroom in Johannesburg on the morning of 30 May 1903 having committed suicide with his revolver.

Springhill House

Col. William Arbuthnot fought in both the Boer and Great Wars and his younger brother Lt. Col. John Staples Molesworth Lenox-Conyngham was killed during the taking of Guillemont in September 1916, leading the VI Battalion Connaught Rangers to the Front armed only with an ancient revolver.

Starr revolver

A Starr revolver (Starr DA) is a double-action revolver which was briefly used in the western theater of the American Civil War until the U.S. Ordnance Department persuaded the Starr Arms Co. to create a single-action variant after discontinuation of the Colt.

Teat-fire cartridge

The Teat-fire cartridge was a .32 caliber pistol cartridge designed by Daniel Moore and manufactured by Moore and his partner David Williamson for their Pocket Revolver, was produced under both the Moore and National Arms marques by the National Arms Company of Brooklyn, New York in the mid-19th century.

Vestal Watches

Carlos Dengler, former bassist for Interpol and Velvet Revolver bassist Duff McKagan, formerly of Guns N' Roses also wear Vestal watches, along with Juliette Lewis and her band Juliette & The Licks, as well as musicians from bands such as the Eagles of Death Metal and Shiny Toy Guns.

Wild Gunman

The Famicom version was also available packaged with a plastic, western-style revolver accessory (modelled after the Colt Single Action Army) that could be used instead of the Zapper.

Zena Tsarfin

As a journalist, her work has appeared in publications including Revolver, Alternative Press, Terrorizer, Guitar World, and Playgirl.


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