In the development of firearms, an important limiting factor was the time required to reload the weapon after it was fired. While the user was reloading, the weapon was useless, allowing an adversary to attack the

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A revolver works by having several firing chambers arranged in a circle in a cylindrical block that are brought into alignment with the firing mechanism and barrel one at a time. In

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Front-loading cylinder
The first revolvers were front loading (also referred to as muzzleloading), and were a bit like

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The Zig zag revolveris a 3D printed .38 Revolver made public in May 2014. It was created by a $500 3D-printer using plastic filament, but the name of

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As a general rule, revolvers cannot be effective with a sound suppressor("silencer"), as there is usually a small gap between the revolving cylinder and the barrel which a bullet must

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The term "automatic revolver" has two different meanings, the first being used in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when "automatic" referred not to the operational

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Single-action
In a single-action revolver, the hammer is manually cocked, usually with the thumb of the firing or supporting hand. This action advances the

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