Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The new Dan Wesson revolver proved extremely accurate, though sales were limited, in large part due to the gun's unorthodox appearance. After reworking the design to improve its aesthetics and correct some detail faults, Wesson introduced the revised model as the Model 15 in .357 Magnum and .22 Long Rifle calibers.
The Dan Wesson M1911 pistol is a series of model 1911 semi-automatic pistols. [ 1 ] Dan Wesson M1911 pistols are made at the Dan Wesson Firearms manufacturing facility in Norwich, New York .
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 Baird Wesson (May 18, 1825 – August 4, 1906) was an American inventor and firearms designer. He helped develop several influential firearm designs over the course of his life; he and Horace Smith were the co-founders of two companies named "Smith & Wesson", the first of which was eventually reorganized into the Winchester Repeating Arms Company and the latter of which became the ...
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 ...
Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc. (S&W) is an American firearm manufacturer headquartered in Maryville, Tennessee, United States. Smith & Wesson was founded by Horace Smith and Daniel B. Wesson as the "Smith & Wesson Revolver Company" in 1856, after their previous company, also called the "Smith & Wesson Company" and later renamed as "Volcanic Repeating Arms", was sold to Oliver Winchester and ...
Both companies' revolvers utilized half-moon clips to extract the rimless .45 ACP cartridges. Daniel B. Wesson's son Joseph Wesson invented and patented the half-moon clip, which was assigned to Smith & Wesson, but at the request of the Army allowed Colt to also use the design free of charge in their own version of the M1917 revolver. [4]
North American Arms is a United States company, headquartered in Provo, Utah, that manufactures pocket pistols and mini-revolvers, also called mouse guns. [1] The company was originally named Rocky Mountain Arms when it was founded in 1972.