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Iver Johnson revolver advertisement, pre-1907. Iver Johnson was born in 1841 [2] in Nordfjord, Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. [3] He was educated as a gunsmith in Bergen in 1857, and had a gun store in Oslo.
Gaetano Bresci used an Iver Johnson revolver chambered in .32 S&W to assassinate King Umberto I of Italy on July 29, 1900. [5] Bresci hit his victim with four shots. Leon Czolgosz used an Iver Johnson revolver chambered in .32 S&W to assassinate United States President William McKinley at the Temple of Music in Buffalo, New York, on September 6 ...
Iver Johnson Safety Automatic: Iver Johnson.32 S&W.38 S&W: 6 United States: 1894–1895 (1st model) 1896–1908 (2nd model) 1909–1941 (3rd model) IOF .22 revolver: Indian Ordnance Factory.22 Long Rifle: 8 India: 2002 JTL-E .500 S&W Magnum 12" Janz-Präzisionstechnik GmbH.500 S&W Magnum: 5 Germany: MP-412 REX: Izhevsk Mechanical Plant.357 ...
The .32 S&W Long / 7.65x23mmR, [2] often called the .32 Long, is a straight-walled, centerfire, rimmed handgun cartridge, based on the earlier .32 S&W cartridge. It was introduced in 1896 for Smith & Wesson's first-model Hand Ejector revolver. Colt called it the .32 Colt New Police in revolvers it made chambered for the cartridge. [3]
ET 22, .22 caliber pistols with 11 inch barrels for the West German Navy. Ithaca Model 72 Saddlegun, in .22LR and .22WMR; EGR 66 and 66X, gas revolver, Smith & Wesson-Revolvers Model 36 copy, 66X is the stainless steel version.22 caliber slide action and lever action rifles for Iver Johnson; Gallager carbine replica in .54 caliber
Smith & Wesson New Departure .32 S&W fired one-handed from 15 yards. Smith & Wesson Safety Hammerless advertisement from 1899, as published in Harper's Magazine. The Smith & Wesson .38 Safety Hammerless models were produced from 1887 (1888 for the 32) to just before World War II. They were chambered in either .32 S&W or .38 S&W with a five-shot ...
The revolving rifle used a special .32 caliber cartridge. The use of a cartridge was a significant improvement compared to the design of the Colt revolving rifle, which did not use cartridges and as a result was often subject to chain fire problems (the firing of all cylinders at once due to loose powder or residue in the weapon). While the ...
This was advantageous, as it allowed the rear of the revolver cylinder to only need a small hole through which the hammer could reach to strike the nipple (or teat) and fire the cartridge, as opposed to a rimfire cartridge where the entire rim had to be exposed at the rear of the revolver cylinder. This was a .32 caliber pistol cartridge ...