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The Model 15-2 became the most well known and the best selling Dan Wesson revolver model to go into production. The 15-2 used a roll pin inserted into the frame as a centering dowel combined with a precisely drilled hole in each shroud assembly to facilitate proper shroud centering and alignment, thus eliminating the need for flanged barrel ...
The Model 15 was introduced in 1949 as the K-38 Combat Masterpiece. It was renamed the Model 15 in 1957, when all Smith & Wesson revolvers were given numerical model numbers. The Model 15's main production run lasted 50 years until 1999, when it was discontinued for approximately a decade, with only brief limited runs in the Heritage Series line.
Smith & Wesson Model No. 2 Army: Smith & Wesson.32 rimfire: 6 United States: 1861-1874 Smith & Wesson Model 3: Smith & Wesson.32 S&W.44 Russian.44 S&W American.44-40 Winchester.38 S&W.45 Schofield: 6 United States: 1868-1898 Smith & Wesson Model 10 (Smith & Wesson .38 Hand Ejector Model of 1899)
Remington Model 1858; Revolver 1882, 1882/1929; Ruger Security-Six; S. Smith & Wesson Model 10; Smith & Wesson Model 15; T. Taurus Model 85; Type 26 revolver; U ...
In 1962, the Air Force adopted the Smith & Wesson Model 15 revolver over the M1911A1. [2] By 1977 their inventory was wearing out, and the USAF requested special ammunition for the M15 to improve its effectiveness due to malfunctions it suffered. [3] A Congressional investigation revealed that the USAF had 25 different handguns in inventory.
Daniel Baird Wesson II (April 22, 1916 – November 24, 1978) [1] was an American inventor and firearms maker, who in 1968 founded the company now known as Dan Wesson Firearms. He was the great-grandson of inventor and firearms maker Daniel Baird Wesson , a co-founder of Smith & Wesson .
Daniel Leavitt (November 16, 1813 – July 27, 1859) [a] was an early American inventor who, with his partner Edwin Wesson, patented the first revolver after Samuel Colt's, [2] and subsequently manufactured one of the first American revolving pistols. [3]
Dan or Daniel Wesson may refer to: Daniel B. Wesson (1825–1906), inventor and co-founder of Smith & Wesson firearms; Daniel B. Wesson II (1916–1978), his great-grandson, inventor and founder of Dan Wesson Firearms; Dan Wesson Firearms, a firearms manufacturer in the United States; Dan Wesson M1911 ACP pistol, a series of model 1911 semi ...