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  2. Remington Model 14 - Wikipedia

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    Model 14-1/2. .38-40 Winchester. .44-40 Winchester [2] Sights. bead front, open rear [4] The Remington Model 14 is a pump-action repeating rifle designed for the Remington Arms company by John Pedersen. It is part of a series of rifles that include the Remington Model 14-1/2 and the Remington Model 141.

  3. Christian Sharps - Wikipedia

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    Model 1849 Berdan Sharps rifle. Sharps was issued a patent for his design of a breech-loading rifle on September 12, 1848. The deficiencies of the Hall rifle may have caused Sharps to adopt his new design. The Sharps rifle was designed with a vertical dropping block action, operated by a lever which also served as a trigger guard.

  4. Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company - Wikipedia

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    Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company was the manufacturer of the Sharps Rifle. The company was organized by Samuel Robbins and Richard S. Lawrence as a holding company in Hartford, Connecticut, on October 9, 1851 with $100,000 in capital. Despite Sharps departing from the company bearing his name, Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company produced over ...

  5. List of Remington models - Wikipedia

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    A Remington Model 870 shotgun. Below is a list of firearms produced by the Remington Arms Company, [1] founded in 1816 as E. Remington and Sons. Following the breakup of Remington Outdoor Company in 2020, the Remington Firearms brand name operates under RemArms, LLC.

  6. List of ArmaLite rifles - Wikipedia

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    ArmaLite. A lightweight hunting style rifle that never made it past the prototype phase and according to reports had issues of exploding when fired. AR-15. .223 Remington, 5.56 NATO. ArmaLite, Colt's Manufacturing Company. A lightweight assault rifle. A smaller version of the AR-10 and adopted by the United States military as the M16 rifle.

  7. O.F. Mossberg & Sons - Wikipedia

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    Thanks to the Brownie pistol, the Mossbergs' firearms business grew steadily, and in 1921 the company purchased a building on Greene Street in New Haven, Connecticut. [3] In 1922, the company introduced the first of a new line of .22 rimfire Mossberg rifles, a pump-action repeater designed by Arthur E. Savage, the son of the owner of Savage Arms Corp.

  8. Century International Arms - Wikipedia

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    Century International Arms is an importer and manufacturer of firearms based in the United States. The company was founded in 1961 in St. Albans, Vermont , with offices in Montreal. In 1995, the company headquarters and sales staff moved to Boca Raton, Florida and to Delray Beach, Florida in 2004.

  9. Christopher Miner Spencer - Wikipedia

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    Percival H. Spencer. Christopher Miner Spencer (June 20, 1833 – January 14, 1922) was an American inventor, from Manchester, Connecticut, who invented the Spencer repeating rifle, one of the earliest models of lever-action rifle, a steam powered "horseless carriage", and several other inventions. He developed the first fully automatic turret ...