According to online listings for the firearm model, the gun is a reproduction of one of the most widely used firearms during the American Civil War, the Colt 1851 Navy. As an antique black powder ...

1835 - The first Colt revolver. Samuel Colt developed ... made), and the Spencer became the principal repeating gun of the Civil War. 1861 - Breech loaded guns in common use.

Howe of Streator, Ill., the youngest volunteer of the civil war. He enlisted first in 1861, when only 10 years and 9 months old, and served for four months, when he was discharged on account of ...

Samuel Colt popularized the revolver. His factory produced 100,000 revolvers during the Civil War-the M1860 Army Colt and the M1861 Navy Colt-which armed both Union and Confederate troops. The Colt ...

In America, a small piece of 3D-printed plastic can turn a semi-automatic handgun into a fully automatic machine gun. In the rest of the world, where guns are harder to get, people are just 3D ...

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After the Vietnam War ended, Colt began marketing semi-automatic versions of the rifle to US gun enthusiasts and police forces alike, although many gun owners remained wary of the weapon.

World War II Navy Veteran Paul McCue was presented with a replica bridge sign honoring him while at the West Virginia Veterans Nursing Facility on Wednesday. Organizer Kip Price told 12 News that ...

Meiosis is important because it ensures that all organisms produced via sexual reproduction contain the correct number of chromosomes. Meiosis also produces genetic variation by way of the process ...

This short film is from the BBC series, Inside the Human Body. Sexual reproduction in humans could be compared to that of other organisms and to asexual reproduction. Encourage the class to ...