Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Dan Wesson Firearms (DW), part of CZ-USA, is an American handgun manufacturer. The corporate headquarters, customer service and manufacturing plant are located in Norwich, New York . Dan Wesson Firearms is known for its revolver expertise and for some types of ammunition it has introduced over the years.
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 ...
Smith and Daniel B. Wesson formed a partnership in 1852 for the purpose of developing the magazine arms later to be manufactured under the Smith & Wesson name. They founded the Smith & Wesson Company, with Cortlandt Palmer, in Norwich, Connecticut in 1854 to develop magazine firearms and the Volcanic rifle, the first repeating rifle.
Founded in 1964 by Douglas McClenahan, Charter Arms prides itself as an "All-American" manufacturer of revolvers, known for innovative designs like the .44 Special Bulldog and .38 Special Bulldog Pug.
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 ...
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]