“Dr. Coult of New York, London and Calcutta.” That’s how the up-and-coming firearm inventor billed himself while exhibiting the effects of nitrous oxide in the 1830s. Traveling the country as a “practiced chemist,” Colt used the nitrous demonstrations as a way to raise money for the development of his firearms. In October 1833, an ad … Read more
In the waning days of 1928, John C. Garand filed a patent application for a “High Speed Firing Mechanism.” At the same time, he was working diligently at Springfield Armory in Massachusetts, developing the rifle that would soon bear his name. The patent, which was granted in November 1930 and assigned to the Lyman Gun … Read more
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxIjkBVEtyE Color me stunned. And allow me to be the first to offer up a bad pun, namely that this brings a whole ‘nuther dimension to shootin’ one’s mouth off. About the only saving grace of what has got to be one of the most stupid, irresponsible, and yet simultaneously and oddly fascinating ideas I’ve … Read more
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