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Twist to Reload this Unique Antique

Posted October 21, 2012 2:28 PM

From Neatorama:

This is the Percival & Smith Repeating Magazine Pistol, patented in 1850. If I understand the description correctly, the cylinder in the front holds 24 bullets and the cylinder in the back holds powder and primer. To chamber a round, the user twists them up, then back down:

After cocking hammer, both chambers swivel upward 180 degrees allowing lead ball to fall into breech from front magazine and loose powder into chamber behind ball from rear magazine; primer pellet also seats itself.

It looks like an advanced version of the Lorenzoni, an amazing gravity-fed seven-shot repeating flintlock pistol designed in the 1680s.

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10/21/2012 6:18 PM

I'm always amazed at the fact that while we like to kill each other so much, it took use so long to come up with the double-action revolver... This wasn't rocket science!

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10/21/2012 7:12 PM

I take it you have never met people who use guns with the intention of killing other people.

Lets just say they are not the most skilled, intelligent, educated, mechanically minded, or creative people to begin with.

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10/25/2012 3:23 AM

I get your point.

However, I personally know or have known several extremely intelligent, skilled, mechanically minded and creative people who have used guns to kill other people. Some of them could even be considered formally well educated.

The ones I knew that were in WW2 or the Korean War are all dead now. But there are a multitude of individuals that fought in either the Vietnam War, the 6 days War, or more recent conflicts that without a doubt are highly intelligent, skilled, creative, mechanically minded, and sometimes even formally well educated.

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10/21/2012 9:06 PM

Looks like something out of a steampunk story

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10/22/2012 3:13 PM

I have often wondered if others are aware of how fortunate we are that most terrorists are from the shallow end of the intelligence pool?

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