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To: marktwain

The pic looks like 2 different revolvers. Maybe police....because I think the colonial troops used larger caliber stuff...had to knock down those tribesmen all hopped up like our boys discovered in the Philippines..


3 posted on 09/04/2012 6:15:53 PM PDT by coolbreeze (giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teen-age boys.)
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To: coolbreeze

The revolver underneath looks more like a British Bulldog variant.

European revolvers of the late 19th Century tended to look somewhat alike; the Nagant variations of Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland, & later the Russian gas-seal version. The French 1892, like the others, was in some 7.62mm caliber.

Then there’s the Austrian Rast-Gasser 8mm revolver. The Japanese Type 26 was a composite of the others.

All these were later swept aside by the 9mm parabellum self-loading pistols.


4 posted on 09/04/2012 6:24:46 PM PDT by elcid1970 (Nuke Mecca now. Death to Islam means freedom for all mankind. Deus vult!)
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