The Arizona Citizens Defense League sadly announces the passing of its founding President and chief lobbyist, Dave Kopp. Dave succumbed to a 12-year battle with cancer on Wednesday, August 24th.
Despite his ongoing illness, Dave worked tirelessly in the trenches of managing an organization and leading the charge at the Legislature, protecting our freedom. In a profile in courage, he kept his illness private so as not to have his struggle interfere with that for freedom.
He had resigned as president several months ago and was the President Emeritus on the Board. Dave selected Michael Gibbs as President, and Cheryl Todd as Vice-President, and the Board agreed. Dave was also a founding member of the AzCDL Foundation, and he was extremely proud of the work the Foundation has done to bring FASTER Saves Lives to Arizona.
His passing will neither diminish the AzCDL mission, nor the passion for our rights. His spirit runs deeply through the organization. We await further news from the family as to any services for Dave
The Arizona Citizens Defense League sadly announces the passing of its founding President and chief lobbyist, Dave Kopp. Dave succumbed to a 12-year battle with cancer on Wednesday, August 24th.
Despite his ongoing illness, Dave worked tirelessly in the trenches of managing an organization and leading the charge at the Legislature, protecting our freedom. In a profile in courage, he kept his illness private so as not to have his struggle interfere with that for freedom.
He had resigned as president several months ago and was the President Emeritus on the Board. Dave selected Michael Gibbs as President, and Cheryl Todd as Vice-President, and the Board agreed. Dave was also a founding member of the AzCDL Foundation, and he was extremely proud of the work the Foundation has done to bring FASTER Saves Lives to Arizona.
His passing will neither diminish the AzCDL mission, nor the passion for our rights. His spirit runs deeply through the organization. We await further news from the family as to any services for Dave
Paul Mauser
June 27, 1838 – May 29, 1914
1889 – Germany Gewehr 98 and Karabiner 98k
1889 – 7.65×53mm Mauser rifle cartridges
1892 – 7×57mm Mauser rifle cartridges
Feb 5, 1883 – May 12, 1945 (62)
Eric A. Sykes –
Instructor
ting
Sergei Gavrilovich Simonov – Died
April 9, 1894 – May 6, 1986
Sergei Gavrilovich Simonov, Russia
1945 – SKS
Richard J. “Dick” Casull
February 15, 1931 – May 6, 2018 (87)
Gunsmith and Wildcat Cartridge Developer
Creator of the .454 Casull cartridge & More..
1957 – .454 Casull cartridge
1966 – Casull Model 290
– 290-round detachable pan magazine
– MSRP $1060 !!
– only 87 manufactured
1967 – all production of Model 290 stopped
1970 – American-180, AM-180, or A180
– 177-round pan magazine
– fires at 1200 rounds per minute
1971 – Casull developed a mini-revolver design
– Rocky Mountain Arms Corp
– RMAC of Salt Lake City, Utah
1975 – Rocky Mountain ceased operation
1978 – Casull became partners with Wayne Baker in Freedom Arms, based in Freedom, Wyoming
1983 – Freedom Arms Model 83, 5-shot prototypes on Ruger Super Blackhawk frames chambered in .454 Casull
1988 – Freedom Arms ended mini revolver production
lverveer
June 14, 1871 – March 6, 1968
Fedor Tokarev – Died (96)
designer of the
- Tokarev TT-30 pistol
- TT-33 pistol
- Tokarev SVT-38 rifle
- SVT-40 rifle
Annie Oakley
born Phoebe Ann Mosey
August 13, 1860 – November 3, 1926
“Miss Annie Oakley”, “Little Sure Shot”, “Little Miss Sure Shot”
She hit 100 clay targets in a row from 16 yards at age 62 in a 1922
Oakley’s personal possessions, performance memorabilia, and firearms are on permanent exhibit in the Garst Museum and the National Annie Oakley Center in Greenville, Ohio
Oakley believed that women should learn to use a gun for the empowering image that it gave
May 13, 1857 – Sept 22, 1938
1899 Savage Model 99 lever-action rifle
1894 Savage started Savage Arms
Hugo Schmeisser
Sept 24, 1884 – Sept 12, 1953 (69)
- 1928 MP-28
- 1938 MP-43
- 1944 Sturmgewehr 44
n
Henry Quackenbush
April 27, 1847 – Sept 8, 1933 (86)
1876 – father of the mass produced air gun
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The Arizona Citizens Defense League sadly announces the passing of its founding President and chief lobbyist, Dave Kopp. Dave succumbed to a 12-year battle with cancer on Wednesday, August 24th.
Despite his ongoing illness, Dave worked tirelessly in the trenches of managing an organization and leading the charge at the Legislature, protecting our freedom. In a profile in courage, he kept his illness private so as not to have his struggle interfere with that for freedom.
He had resigned as president several months ago and was the President Emeritus on the Board. Dave selected Michael Gibbs as President, and Cheryl Todd as Vice-President, and the Board agreed. Dave was also a founding member of the AzCDL Foundation, and he was extremely proud of the work the Foundation has done to bring FASTER Saves Lives to Arizona.
His passing will neither diminish the AzCDL mission, nor the passion for our rights. His spirit runs deeply through the organization. We await further news from the family as to any services for Dave
Eliphalet Remington
Oct 28, 1793 – Aug 12, 1861
USA
1840 formed E. Remington and Sons
hand-made a flintlock rifle using a firing mechanism bought from a gunsmith
Daniel B. Wesson
May 18, 1825 – Aug 4, 1906
USA
- the Volcanic – the first repeating rifle
- 1854 patented Rimfire cartridge
Paul Mauser
June 27, 1838 – May 29, 1914
1889 – Germany Gewehr 98 and Karabiner 98k
1889 – 7.65×53mm Mauser rifle cartridges
1892 – 7×57mm Mauser rifle cartridges
Feb 5, 1883 – May 12, 1945 (62)
Eric A. Sykes –
Instructor
ting
Sergei Gavrilovich Simonov – Died
April 9, 1894 – May 6, 1986
Sergei Gavrilovich Simonov, Russia
1945 – SKS
Richard J. “Dick” Casull
February 15, 1931 – May 6, 2018 (87)
Gunsmith and Wildcat Cartridge Developer
Creator of the .454 Casull cartridge & More..
1957 – .454 Casull cartridge
1966 – Casull Model 290
– 290-round detachable pan magazine
– MSRP $1060 !!
– only 87 manufactured
1967 – all production of Model 290 stopped
1970 – American-180, AM-180, or A180
– 177-round pan magazine
– fires at 1200 rounds per minute
1971 – Casull developed a mini-revolver design
– Rocky Mountain Arms Corp
– RMAC of Salt Lake City, Utah
1975 – Rocky Mountain ceased operation
1978 – Casull became partners with Wayne Baker in Freedom Arms, based in Freedom, Wyoming
1983 – Freedom Arms Model 83, 5-shot prototypes on Ruger Super Blackhawk frames chambered in .454 Casull
1988 – Freedom Arms ended mini revolver production
lverveer
June 14, 1871 – March 6, 1968
Fedor Tokarev – Died (96)
designer of the
- Tokarev TT-30 pistol
- TT-33 pistol
- Tokarev SVT-38 rifle
- SVT-40 rifle
Eugene Reising
Nov 26, 1884 – Feb 21, 1967
USA
- M50 Reising 1938
- One of only seven individuals have invented firearms adopted by the United States Military
- more than 60 firearm patents
Worked with:
- Harrington & Richardson
- Mossberg & Sons
- Marlin
- Savage
- Stevens
Annie Oakley
born Phoebe Ann Mosey
August 13, 1860 – November 3, 1926
“Miss Annie Oakley”, “Little Sure Shot”, “Little Miss Sure Shot”
She hit 100 clay targets in a row from 16 yards at age 62 in a 1922
Oakley’s personal possessions, performance memorabilia, and firearms are on permanent exhibit in the Garst Museum and the National Annie Oakley Center in Greenville, Ohio
Oakley believed that women should learn to use a gun for the empowering image that it gave
Don Kates – Born
Jan 26, 1941
2A Activist His scholarship and litigation played part in modern renaissance of 2A
May 13, 1857 – Sept 22, 1938
1899 Savage Model 99 lever-action rifle
1894 Savage started Savage Arms
Hugo Schmeisser
Sept 24, 1884 – Sept 12, 1953 (69)
- 1928 MP-28
- 1938 MP-43
- 1944 Sturmgewehr 44
n
Henry Quackenbush
April 27, 1847 – Sept 8, 1933 (86)
1876 – father of the mass produced air gun
ssdd
The Arizona Citizens Defense League sadly announces the passing of its founding President and chief lobbyist, Dave Kopp. Dave succumbed to a 12-year battle with cancer on Wednesday, August 24th.
Despite his ongoing illness, Dave worked tirelessly in the trenches of managing an organization and leading the charge at the Legislature, protecting our freedom. In a profile in courage, he kept his illness private so as not to have his struggle interfere with that for freedom.
He had resigned as president several months ago and was the President Emeritus on the Board. Dave selected Michael Gibbs as President, and Cheryl Todd as Vice-President, and the Board agreed. Dave was also a founding member of the AzCDL Foundation, and he was extremely proud of the work the Foundation has done to bring FASTER Saves Lives to Arizona.
His passing will neither diminish the AzCDL mission, nor the passion for our rights. His spirit runs deeply through the organization. We await further news from the family as to any services for Dave
Eliphalet Remington
Oct 28, 1793 – Aug 12, 1861
USA
1840 formed E. Remington and Sons
hand-made a flintlock rifle using a firing mechanism bought from a gunsmith
Daniel B. Wesson
May 18, 1825 – Aug 4, 1906
USA
- the Volcanic – the first repeating rifle
- 1854 patented Rimfire cartridge
Louis Awerbuck
Jan 27, 1948 – June 24, 2014
Firearm Instructor
Paul Mauser
June 27, 1838 – May 29, 1914
1889 – Germany Gewehr 98 and Karabiner 98k
1889 – 7.65×53mm Mauser rifle cartridges
1892 – 7×57mm Mauser rifle cartridges
May 21, 1881 – May 23, 1951
- prolific firearm designer
- Over 70 patents
1918 – Pedersen device
converted a standard Springfield 1903 to a semi-automatic, pistol-caliber
1920s – Pedersen Rifle, T1E3
Competed with M1 Garand to replace 1903 Springfield
Remington
– Model 51 pistol
– Model 10 pump-action shotgun
– Models 12, 14, 25 pump-action rifles
Browning Model 17 pump-action shotgu
Ithaca
– Ithaca 37 pump-action shotgun
Irwin-Pedersen Arms Company
Feb 5, 1883 – May 12, 1945 (62)
Eric A. Sykes –
Instructor
ting
Sergei Gavrilovich Simonov – Died
April 9, 1894 – May 6, 1986
Sergei Gavrilovich Simonov, Russia
1945 – SKS
Richard J. “Dick” Casull
February 15, 1931 – May 6, 2018 (87)
Gunsmith and Wildcat Cartridge Developer
Creator of the .454 Casull cartridge & More..
1957 – .454 Casull cartridge
1966 – Casull Model 290
– 290-round detachable pan magazine
– MSRP $1060 !!
– only 87 manufactured
1967 – all production of Model 290 stopped
1970 – American-180, AM-180, or A180
– 177-round pan magazine
– fires at 1200 rounds per minute
1971 – Casull developed a mini-revolver design
– Rocky Mountain Arms Corp
– RMAC of Salt Lake City, Utah
1975 – Rocky Mountain ceased operation
1978 – Casull became partners with Wayne Baker in Freedom Arms, based in Freedom, Wyoming
1983 – Freedom Arms Model 83, 5-shot prototypes on Ruger Super Blackhawk frames chambered in .454 Casull
1988 – Freedom Arms ended mini revolver production
lverveer
Tom Deeb – Died (65)
Sept 26,1949 – March 21, 2016
- 1973 to 1976 US Air Force during the Vietnam War
- Firearm Inventor
- Prolific entrepreneur
- 1993 Founded Hi Point Mansfield, Ohio
June 14, 1871 – March 6, 1968
Fedor Tokarev – Died (96)
designer of the
- Tokarev TT-30 pistol
- TT-33 pistol
- Tokarev SVT-38 rifle
- SVT-40 rifle
Eugene Reising
Nov 26, 1884 – Feb 21, 1967
USA
- M50 Reising 1938
- One of only seven individuals have invented firearms adopted by the United States Military
- more than 60 firearm patents
Worked with:
- Harrington & Richardson
- Mossberg & Sons
- Marlin
- Savage
- Stevens
John Cantius Garand
Jan 1, 1888 – Feb 16, 1974
Canada / USA
1928 M1 Garand
One of only seven individuals have invented firearms adopted by the United States Military
Sergei Ivanovich Mosin
Серге́й Ива́нович Мо́син
April (2 or 14), 1849 – Feb 8, 1902 (52)
Mosin was a weapons designer at Tula who collaborated with Nagant to design the Mosin Nagant rifle
#MosinNagant
#RussianGuns
Alexander Henry
June 4, 1818 – Jan 27, 1894
Scotland
1870 Martini – Henry
Elisha Collier
(1788–1856)
Jan 23, 1856
Boston Inventor
1814 – invented a flintlock revolver
1818 until 1850 lived in England from
Collier also produced revolving shotguns and carbines
Christopher Miner Spencer
June 20, 1833 – Jan 14, 1922
USA
- Spencer repeating rifle 1860 Colt
- Spencer Arms Company
- Roper Repeating Arms Company
Hubert Leon “Bill” Richardson
December 28, 1927 – January 13, 2020 (92)
- – Born in Terre Haute, Indiana
- married to his beloved late wife Barbara for 57 years
- served in the United States Navy in World War II
- – 1975 founded The Gun Owners of America (GOA)
- – founded Gun Owners of California
- – 1966-1989 California state senator
career was primarily focused on the preservation and protection of the Second Amendment
- – Chair the Senate Fish and Game Committee
- extraordinary hunter and dedicated to the conservation of California California California game
- – NRA board of director
- Author: “Confrontational Politics”
- – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._L._Richardsoni
William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody
Feb 26, 1846 – Jan 10, 1917
Born in Iowa Territory
opened Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show in Omaha, Nebraska
launching a genre of outdoor entertainment that thrived for three decades and survived, in fits and starts, for almost three more
“Westward the course of empire takes its way.”
Annie Oakley broke ground when she and her husband and manager, Frank Butler, joined Buffalo Bill early in 1885
Lillian Smith toured as a teenager with Buffalo Bill
Melvin M. Johnson Jr
Aug 9, 1909 – Jan 9, 1965
USA
- M1941 Johnson rifle 1935
- One of only seven individuals have invented firearms adopted by the United States Military
- Marine Corps Reserve in 1933 as a Second Lieutenant
- completed Harvard Law School in 1934
Worked With:
Annie Oakley
born Phoebe Ann Mosey
August 13, 1860 – November 3, 1926
“Miss Annie Oakley”, “Little Sure Shot”, “Little Miss Sure Shot”
She hit 100 clay targets in a row from 16 yards at age 62 in a 1922
Oakley’s personal possessions, performance memorabilia, and firearms are on permanent exhibit in the Garst Museum and the National Annie Oakley Center in Greenville, Ohio
Oakley believed that women should learn to use a gun for the empowering image that it gave
Don Kates – Born
Jan 26, 1941
2A Activist His scholarship and litigation played part in modern renaissance of 2A
May 13, 1857 – Sept 22, 1938
1899 Savage Model 99 lever-action rifle
1894 Savage started Savage Arms
Hugo Schmeisser
Sept 24, 1884 – Sept 12, 1953 (69)
- 1928 MP-28
- 1938 MP-43
- 1944 Sturmgewehr 44
n
Henry Quackenbush
April 27, 1847 – Sept 8, 1933 (86)
1876 – father of the mass produced air gun
ssdd
Eliphalet Remington
Oct 28, 1793 – Aug 12, 1861
USA
1840 formed E. Remington and Sons
hand-made a flintlock rifle using a firing mechanism bought from a gunsmith
Daniel B. Wesson
May 18, 1825 – Aug 4, 1906
USA
- the Volcanic – the first repeating rifle
- 1854 patented Rimfire cartridge
Jean Alexandre LeMat
April 15, 1821 – July 28, 1895
born in France
1843 – immigrated to the United States
Oct 21, 1856 – Grapeshot revolver patented
Rex Applegate
June 21, 1914 – July 14, 1998
- American military officer
- worked for the Office of Strategic Services during World War II
- 1941 – developing armed and unarmed close quarter combat courses for the US Army
- served as the personal bodyguard to President Franklin D Roosevelt
- advisor to the government of Mexico “Honorary General”
- Tought John Wayne how to shoot
- technical advisor on the set of The Alamo
- Applegate was said to be the source and inspiration for several of Ian Fleming’s characters in the James Bond novels
- 1943 he wrote Kill or Get Killed
a classic manual of Western-style hand-to-hand combat.
- 1976 Kill or Get Killed was published by the US Marine Corps as Fleet Marine Force Reference Publication 12-80
- 1941 Applegate-Fairbairn fighting knife
- 1993 – Combat Use of the Double-Edged Fighting Knife
Carl Walther
Nov 22, 1858 – July 9, 1915
1886 founded the firm of Carl Walther GmbH, (Walther)
1908 Germany Model 1 (.25acp)
May 6, 1836 – July 1, 1901
During the American Civil War – worked at the Colt plant in Hartford
1863 – Starting making pistols in New Haven, Connecticut
1881 – lever-action repeating rifle
sons Mahlon Henry and John Howard took over the company after their father’s death in 1901
Louis Awerbuck
Jan 27, 1948 – June 24, 2014
Firearm Instructor
Jonathan Browning
October 22, 1805 – June 21, 1879
American inventor/ gunsmith
born in Tennessee
producing firearms independently by 1831
living in Quincy, Illinois
invented a “sliding breech” repeating rifle also called a Harmonica gun between 1834 and 1842
William E. Fairbairn
February 28, 1885 – June 20, 1960 (75)
- 1901 – British Royal Marine
- Police Officer
- 1907 – Shanghai Police during the interwar period
- 1941 – Trained allied special forces during World War II
- Received the U.S. Legion of Merit (Officer grade)
at the request of OSS-founder “Wild Bill” Donovan
- 1951 – Firearms Instructor
Developed hand-to-hand combat methods
1926 – Created his own fighting system known as Defendu
included innovative pistol shooting techniques
1941 – Developed the Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife
Walter Hunt – Died (63)
July 29, 1796 – June 8, 1859
- 1848 Volcanic
- Firing cock repeating gun Patent 6663
- lockstitch sewing machine (1833)
- safety pin (1849)
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Benjamin Tyler Henry
March 22, 1821 – June 8, 1898
Paul Mauser
June 27, 1838 – May 29, 1914
1889 – Germany Gewehr 98 and Karabiner 98k
1889 – 7.65×53mm Mauser rifle cartridges
1892 – 7×57mm Mauser rifle cartridges
May 21, 1881 – May 23, 1951
- prolific firearm designer
- Over 70 patents
1918 – Pedersen device
converted a standard Springfield 1903 to a semi-automatic, pistol-caliber
1920s – Pedersen Rifle, T1E3
Competed with M1 Garand to replace 1903 Springfield
Remington
– Model 51 pistol
– Model 10 pump-action shotgun
– Models 12, 14, 25 pump-action rifles
Browning Model 17 pump-action shotgu
Ithaca
– Ithaca 37 pump-action shotgun
Irwin-Pedersen Arms Company
Feb 5, 1883 – May 12, 1945 (62)
Eric A. Sykes –
Instructor
ting
Richard J. “Dick” Casull
February 15, 1931 – May 6, 2018 (87)
Gunsmith and Wildcat Cartridge Developer
Creator of the .454 Casull cartridge & More..
1957 – .454 Casull cartridge
1966 – Casull Model 290
– 290-round detachable pan magazine
– MSRP $1060 !!
– only 87 manufactured
1967 – all production of Model 290 stopped
1970 – American-180, AM-180, or A180
– 177-round pan magazine
– fires at 1200 rounds per minute
1971 – Casull developed a mini-revolver design
– Rocky Mountain Arms Corp
– RMAC of Salt Lake City, Utah
1975 – Rocky Mountain ceased operation
1978 – Casull became partners with Wayne Baker in Freedom Arms, based in Freedom, Wyoming
1983 – Freedom Arms Model 83, 5-shot prototypes on Ruger Super Blackhawk frames chambered in .454 Casull
1988 – Freedom Arms ended mini revolver production
lverveer
Kijirō Nambu
Sept 22, 1869 – May 1, 1949 (80)
1902 nnnthe “John Browning of Japan”
1914 Type 3 Heavy Machine Gun
1922 Type 11 Light Machine Gun in
1927 Nambu Arms Manufacturing Company in Tokyo
Hiram Berdan
Sept 6, 1824 – March 31, 1893 (59)
March 20, 1866 – Berdan centerfire primer
Rollin White (75)
June 6, 1817 – March 22, 1892
Tom Deeb – Died (65)
Sept 26,1949 – March 21, 2016
- 1973 to 1976 US Air Force during the Vietnam War
- Firearm Inventor
- Prolific entrepreneur
- 1993 Founded Hi Point Mansfield, Ohio
June 14, 1871 – March 6, 1968
Fedor Tokarev – Died (96)
designer of the
- Tokarev TT-30 pistol
- TT-33 pistol
- Tokarev SVT-38 rifle
- SVT-40 rifle
Henry Deringer
October 26, 1786 – February 28, 1868
USA
James Paris Lee – (72)
August 9, 1831 – February 24, 1904
Inventor invented action and magazine used in Lee–Metford and Lee–Enfield
1843 – built his first gun at the age of 12
1861 – Developed a breech loading cartridge conversion for the Springfield musket Model 1861
Acquired a contract for 1,000 rifles from the US Army during the American Civil War.
November 4th, 1879 – patent #221,328 for the vertical box magazine
Ludwig Vorgrimler
September 7, 1912 – February 23, 1983 (71)
German Firearm Inventor
Eugene Reising
Nov 26, 1884 – Feb 21, 1967
USA
- M50 Reising 1938
- One of only seven individuals have invented firearms adopted by the United States Military
- more than 60 firearm patents
Worked with:
- Harrington & Richardson
- Mossberg & Sons
- Marlin
- Savage
- Stevens
John Cantius Garand
Jan 1, 1888 – Feb 16, 1974
Canada / USA
1928 M1 Garand
One of only seven individuals have invented firearms adopted by the United States Military
Feb 17, 1930 – Feb 15, 2003
Maxwell G. Atchisson – (73)
- AA12 (Atchisson Assault 12),
- Lightning Link,
- 1972 – .22 caliber conversion kit for the AR-15
- granted twenty-four patents
ne Gun
Sergei Ivanovich Mosin
Серге́й Ива́нович Мо́син
April (2 or 14), 1849 – Feb 8, 1902 (52)
Mosin was a weapons designer at Tula who collaborated with Nagant to design the Mosin Nagant rifle
#MosinNagant
#RussianGuns
Alexander Henry
June 4, 1818 – Jan 27, 1894
Scotland
1870 Martini – Henry
Elisha Collier
(1788–1856)
Jan 23, 1856
Boston Inventor
1814 – invented a flintlock revolver
1818 until 1850 lived in England from
Collier also produced revolving shotguns and carbines
Horace Smith
Oct 28, 1808 – Jan 15, 1893 (85)
Christopher Miner Spencer
June 20, 1833 – Jan 14, 1922
USA
- Spencer repeating rifle 1860 Colt
- Spencer Arms Company
- Roper Repeating Arms Company
Hubert Leon “Bill” Richardson
December 28, 1927 – January 13, 2020 (92)
- – Born in Terre Haute, Indiana
- married to his beloved late wife Barbara for 57 years
- served in the United States Navy in World War II
- – 1975 founded The Gun Owners of America (GOA)
- – founded Gun Owners of California
- – 1966-1989 California state senator
career was primarily focused on the preservation and protection of the Second Amendment
- – Chair the Senate Fish and Game Committee
- extraordinary hunter and dedicated to the conservation of California California California game
- – NRA board of director
- Author: “Confrontational Politics”
- – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._L._Richardsoni
Arisaka Nariakira
April 5, 1852 – Jan 12, 1915
Japan
1897 – Type 30 Rifle
William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody
Feb 26, 1846 – Jan 10, 1917
Born in Iowa Territory
opened Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show in Omaha, Nebraska
launching a genre of outdoor entertainment that thrived for three decades and survived, in fits and starts, for almost three more
“Westward the course of empire takes its way.”
Annie Oakley broke ground when she and her husband and manager, Frank Butler, joined Buffalo Bill early in 1885
Lillian Smith toured as a teenager with Buffalo Bill
Melvin M. Johnson Jr
Aug 9, 1909 – Jan 9, 1965
USA
- M1941 Johnson rifle 1935
- One of only seven individuals have invented firearms adopted by the United States Military
- Marine Corps Reserve in 1933 as a Second Lieutenant
- completed Harvard Law School in 1934
Worked With:
Herman Krag
Ole Herman Johannes Krag
April 7, 1837 – Dec 9, 1916
Norway
1886, Krag–Petersson Rifle
1872,Krag–Jørgensen Rifle
Don Kates – Born
Jan 26, 1941
2A Activist His scholarship and litigation played part in modern renaissance of 2A
May 13, 1857 – Sept 22, 1938
1899 Savage Model 99 lever-action rifle
1894 Savage started Savage Arms
Gen. Ambrose Burnside
(May 23, 1824 – September 13, 1881) (57)
– 1843-1847 United States Military Academy – graduated 18th in a class of 47
– 1847–1853 Mexican–American War (1st Lieutenant)
– 1853 manufactured the Burnside carbine
– 1861 – 1865 Civil War, Major General
– 1866-1869 Governor of Rhode Island
– 1871 NRA’s first President
– 1875-1881 U.S. Senator from Rhode Island
– His distinctive style of facial hair became known as sideburns
Hugo Schmeisser
Sept 24, 1884 – Sept 12, 1953 (69)
- 1928 MP-28
- 1938 MP-43
- 1944 Sturmgewehr 44
n
Henry Quackenbush
April 27, 1847 – Sept 8, 1933 (86)
1876 – father of the mass produced air gun
ssdd
Eliphalet Remington
Oct 28, 1793 – Aug 12, 1861
USA
1840 formed E. Remington and Sons
hand-made a flintlock rifle using a firing mechanism bought from a gunsmith
Daniel B. Wesson
May 18, 1825 – Aug 4, 1906
USA
- the Volcanic – the first repeating rifle
- 1854 patented Rimfire cartridge
Jean Alexandre LeMat
April 15, 1821 – July 28, 1895
born in France
1843 – immigrated to the United States
Oct 21, 1856 – Grapeshot revolver patented
Rex Applegate
June 21, 1914 – July 14, 1998
- American military officer
- worked for the Office of Strategic Services during World War II
- 1941 – developing armed and unarmed close quarter combat courses for the US Army
- served as the personal bodyguard to President Franklin D Roosevelt
- advisor to the government of Mexico “Honorary General”
- Tought John Wayne how to shoot
- technical advisor on the set of The Alamo
- Applegate was said to be the source and inspiration for several of Ian Fleming’s characters in the James Bond novels
- 1943 he wrote Kill or Get Killed
a classic manual of Western-style hand-to-hand combat.
- 1976 Kill or Get Killed was published by the US Marine Corps as Fleet Marine Force Reference Publication 12-80
- 1941 Applegate-Fairbairn fighting knife
- 1993 – Combat Use of the Double-Edged Fighting Knife
May 6, 1836 – July 1, 1901
During the American Civil War – worked at the Colt plant in Hartford
1863 – Starting making pistols in New Haven, Connecticut
1881 – lever-action repeating rifle
sons Mahlon Henry and John Howard took over the company after their father’s death in 1901
Louis Awerbuck
Jan 27, 1948 – June 24, 2014
Firearm Instructor
Author
- Chief Rangemaster at Gunsite
- Owner & lead instructor of Yavapai Firearms Academy
- 1 Special Services Battalion South African Defence Force
#LouisAwerbuck
#FirearmsInstructor
@ShootersAlmanac
#ShootersAlmanac
@GunWebsites
#GunWebsites
John Taliaferro Thompson
Dec 31, 1860 – June 21, 1940
USA
- Thompson submachine gun 1920
- One of only seven individuals have invented firearms adopted by the United States Military
Jonathan Browning
October 22, 1805 – June 21, 1879
American inventor/ gunsmith
born in Tennessee
producing firearms independently by 1831
living in Quincy, Illinois
invented a “sliding breech” repeating rifle also called a Harmonica gun between 1834 and 1842
William E. Fairbairn
February 28, 1885 – June 20, 1960 (75)
- 1901 – British Royal Marine
- Police Officer
- 1907 – Shanghai Police during the interwar period
- 1941 – Trained allied special forces during World War II
- Received the U.S. Legion of Merit (Officer grade)
at the request of OSS-founder “Wild Bill” Donovan
- 1951 – Firearms Instructor
Developed hand-to-hand combat methods
1926 – Created his own fighting system known as Defendu
included innovative pistol shooting techniques
1941 – Developed the Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife
Reverend John Forsyth
Dec 28, 1769 – June 11, 1843
Scotland
1805 – Percussion Cap ignition system
Walter Hunt – Died (63)
July 29, 1796 – June 8, 1859
- 1848 Volcanic
- Firing cock repeating gun Patent 6663
- lockstitch sewing machine (1833)
- safety pin (1849)
b
Paul Mauser
June 27, 1838 – May 29, 1914
1889 – Germany Gewehr 98 and Karabiner 98k
1889 – 7.65×53mm Mauser rifle cartridges
1892 – 7×57mm Mauser rifle cartridges
May 21, 1881 – May 23, 1951
- prolific firearm designer
- Over 70 patents
1918 – Pedersen device
converted a standard Springfield 1903 to a semi-automatic, pistol-caliber
1920s – Pedersen Rifle, T1E3
Competed with M1 Garand to replace 1903 Springfield
Remington
– Model 51 pistol
– Model 10 pump-action shotgun
– Models 12, 14, 25 pump-action rifles
Browning Model 17 pump-action shotgu
Ithaca
– Ithaca 37 pump-action shotgun
Irwin-Pedersen Arms Company
Feb 5, 1883 – May 12, 1945 (62)
Eric A. Sykes –
Instructor
ting
Richard J. “Dick” Casull
February 15, 1931 – May 6, 2018 (87)
Gunsmith and Wildcat Cartridge Developer
Creator of the .454 Casull cartridge & More..
1957 – .454 Casull cartridge
1966 – Casull Model 290
– 290-round detachable pan magazine
– MSRP $1060 !!
– only 87 manufactured
1967 – all production of Model 290 stopped
1970 – American-180, AM-180, or A180
– 177-round pan magazine
– fires at 1200 rounds per minute
1971 – Casull developed a mini-revolver design
– Rocky Mountain Arms Corp
– RMAC of Salt Lake City, Utah
1975 – Rocky Mountain ceased operation
1978 – Casull became partners with Wayne Baker in Freedom Arms, based in Freedom, Wyoming
1983 – Freedom Arms Model 83, 5-shot prototypes on Ruger Super Blackhawk frames chambered in .454 Casull
1988 – Freedom Arms ended mini revolver production
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Sergei Gavrilovich Simonov – Died
April 9, 1894 – May 6, 1986
Sergei Gavrilovich Simonov, Russia
1945 – SKS
Kijirō Nambu
Sept 22, 1869 – May 1, 1949 (80)
1902 nnnthe “John Browning of Japan”
1914 Type 3 Heavy Machine Gun
1922 Type 11 Light Machine Gun in
1927 Nambu Arms Manufacturing Company in Tokyo
Hiram Berdan
Sept 6, 1824 – March 31, 1893 (59)
March 20, 1866 – Berdan centerfire primer
Rollin White (75)
June 6, 1817 – March 22, 1892
Tom Deeb – Died (65)
Sept 26,1949 – March 21, 2016
- 1973 to 1976 US Air Force during the Vietnam War
- Firearm Inventor
- Prolific entrepreneur
- 1993 Founded Hi Point Mansfield, Ohio
Sergeant Stubby
1916 – March 16, 1926
- the most decorated war dog of WWI
- the only dog to be nominated for rank and then promoted to sergeant through combat
- served with the 102nd Infantry Regiment
- He entered combat on February 5, 1918
- in the trenches in France for 8 months
- participated in 17 battles
- warned his unit of poison gas attacks
- located wounded soldiers in no man’s land
- captured a German spy
- April 1918 wounded in the foreleg by German hand grenade
- 1918 met President Woodrow Wilson on Christmas Day
- July 6, 1921 General John J. Pershing decorated Stubby with a gold medal on behalf of the Humane Education Society in Washington, D.C.
- 1921 – received at the White House by President Warren G. Harding
- 1924 – received at the White House by President Calvin Coolidge
- Memorial Day 2018 – Life-size bronze statue unveiled in Middletown, Connecticut
– CT Trees of Honor Memorial
https://www.si.edu/search?edan_q=stubby&
Christian Sharps
Jan 2, 1810 – March 12, 1874
USA
- Sharps rifle, 4 barrel derringer 1851
- 1855 the first commercially successful breech-loading rifle
- fifteen firearms-related patents
June 14, 1871 – March 6, 1968
Fedor Tokarev – Died (96)
designer of the
- Tokarev TT-30 pistol
- TT-33 pistol
- Tokarev SVT-38 rifle
- SVT-40 rifle
Henry Deringer
October 26, 1786 – February 28, 1868
USA
James Paris Lee – (72)
August 9, 1831 – February 24, 1904
Inventor invented action and magazine used in Lee–Metford and Lee–Enfield
1843 – built his first gun at the age of 12
1861 – Developed a breech loading cartridge conversion for the Springfield musket Model 1861
Acquired a contract for 1,000 rifles from the US Army during the American Civil War.
November 4th, 1879 – patent #221,328 for the vertical box magazine
Ludwig Vorgrimler
September 7, 1912 – February 23, 1983 (71)
German Firearm Inventor
Eugene Reising
Nov 26, 1884 – Feb 21, 1967
USA
- M50 Reising 1938
- One of only seven individuals have invented firearms adopted by the United States Military
- more than 60 firearm patents
Worked with:
- Harrington & Richardson
- Mossberg & Sons
- Marlin
- Savage
- Stevens
John Cantius Garand
Jan 1, 1888 – Feb 16, 1974
Canada / USA
1928 M1 Garand
One of only seven individuals have invented firearms adopted by the United States Military
Feb 17, 1930 – Feb 15, 2003
Maxwell G. Atchisson – (73)
- AA12 (Atchisson Assault 12),
- Lightning Link,
- 1972 – .22 caliber conversion kit for the AR-15
- granted twenty-four patents
ne Gun
Sergei Ivanovich Mosin
Серге́й Ива́нович Мо́син
April (2 or 14), 1849 – Feb 8, 1902 (52)
Mosin was a weapons designer at Tula who collaborated with Nagant to design the Mosin Nagant rifle
#MosinNagant
#RussianGuns
Alexander Henry
June 4, 1818 – Jan 27, 1894
Scotland
1870 Martini – Henry
Elisha Collier
(1788–1856)
Jan 23, 1856
Boston Inventor
1814 – invented a flintlock revolver
1818 until 1850 lived in England from
Collier also produced revolving shotguns and carbines
Horace Smith
Oct 28, 1808 – Jan 15, 1893 (85)
Christopher Miner Spencer
June 20, 1833 – Jan 14, 1922
USA
- Spencer repeating rifle 1860 Colt
- Spencer Arms Company
- Roper Repeating Arms Company
Hubert Leon “Bill” Richardson
December 28, 1927 – January 13, 2020 (92)
- – Born in Terre Haute, Indiana
- married to his beloved late wife Barbara for 57 years
- served in the United States Navy in World War II
- – 1975 founded The Gun Owners of America (GOA)
- – founded Gun Owners of California
- – 1966-1989 California state senator
career was primarily focused on the preservation and protection of the Second Amendment
- – Chair the Senate Fish and Game Committee
- extraordinary hunter and dedicated to the conservation of California California California game
- – NRA board of director
- Author: “Confrontational Politics”
- – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._L._Richardsoni
Arisaka Nariakira
April 5, 1852 – Jan 12, 1915
Japan
1897 – Type 30 Rifle
William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody
Feb 26, 1846 – Jan 10, 1917
Born in Iowa Territory
opened Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show in Omaha, Nebraska
launching a genre of outdoor entertainment that thrived for three decades and survived, in fits and starts, for almost three more
“Westward the course of empire takes its way.”
Annie Oakley broke ground when she and her husband and manager, Frank Butler, joined Buffalo Bill early in 1885
Lillian Smith toured as a teenager with Buffalo Bill
Melvin M. Johnson Jr
Aug 9, 1909 – Jan 9, 1965
USA
- M1941 Johnson rifle 1935
- One of only seven individuals have invented firearms adopted by the United States Military
- Marine Corps Reserve in 1933 as a Second Lieutenant
- completed Harvard Law School in 1934
Worked With:
David “Carbine” Marshall Williams
Nov 13, 1900 – Jan 8, 1975
floating chamber and the short-stroke piston
Colt Manufacturing Company, U.S. Ordnance Department, Remington Arms, Winchester Repeating Arms
Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov
Михаи́л Тимофе́евич Кала́шников
(November 10, 1919 – December 23, 2013)
Russian general, inventor, military engineer, writer and small arms designer.
Georg Johann Luger
March 6, 1849 – Dec 22, 1923
Designed of the Luger pistol and the 9×19mm Parabellum cartridge.
#GunHistory
#9mm #Luger
Oliver Fisher Winchester (90)
November 30, 1810 – December 11, 1880
Continue reading →
Herman Krag
Ole Herman Johannes Krag
April 7, 1837 – Dec 9, 1916
Norway
1886, Krag–Petersson Rifle
1872,Krag–Jørgensen Rifle
John Moses Browning
Jan. 23, 1855 – Nov. 26, 1926
Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim
(Feb 5, 1840 – Nov 24, 1916)
Invented the Maxim Gun
In 1883: the first recoil-operated machine gun
* Father of Suppressor Inventor
** Brother of Smokeless Gun Powder Inventor
#Maxim #MachineGun
#1stMachineGun
Gordon Ingram
Dec 30, 1924 – Nov 4, 2004
USA
1964 – MAC-10
Annie Oakley
born Phoebe Ann Mosey
August 13, 1860 – November 3, 1926
“Miss Annie Oakley”, “Little Sure Shot”, “Little Miss Sure Shot”
She hit 100 clay targets in a row from 16 yards at age 62 in a 1922
Oakley’s personal possessions, performance memorabilia, and firearms are on permanent exhibit in the Garst Museum and the National Annie Oakley Center in Greenville, Ohio
Oakley believed that women should learn to use a gun for the empowering image that it gave
May 13, 1857 – Sept 22, 1938
1899 Savage Model 99 lever-action rifle
1894 Savage started Savage Arms
Gen. Ambrose Burnside
(May 23, 1824 – September 13, 1881) (57)
– 1843-1847 United States Military Academy – graduated 18th in a class of 47
– 1847–1853 Mexican–American War (1st Lieutenant)
– 1853 manufactured the Burnside carbine
– 1861 – 1865 Civil War, Major General
– 1866-1869 Governor of Rhode Island
– 1871 NRA’s first President
– 1875-1881 U.S. Senator from Rhode Island
– His distinctive style of facial hair became known as sideburns
Hugo Schmeisser
Sept 24, 1884 – Sept 12, 1953 (69)
- 1928 MP-28
- 1938 MP-43
- 1944 Sturmgewehr 44
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Henry Quackenbush
April 27, 1847 – Sept 8, 1933 (86)
1876 – father of the mass produced air gun
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Mr. Uziel Gal
(December 15, 1923 – September 7, 2002)
Uziel Gal (79), the inventor of Israel’s Uzi submachine gun,
Uziel (Uzi) Gal was born on 15 December 1923, as Gothard Glas.
He died in Philadelphia of a long illness
#UZI #Uzi9mm
Eliphalet Remington
Oct 28, 1793 – Aug 12, 1861
USA
1840 formed E. Remington and Sons
hand-made a flintlock rifle using a firing mechanism bought from a gunsmith
Daniel B. Wesson
May 18, 1825 – Aug 4, 1906
USA
- the Volcanic – the first repeating rifle
- 1854 patented Rimfire cartridge
Calamity Jane
May 1, 1852 – August 1, 1903
American frontierswoman and professional scout and acquaintance of Wild Bill Hickok
#RealGuns
#CowboyGuns
#GunHistory
Jean Alexandre LeMat
April 15, 1821 – July 28, 1895
born in France
1843 – immigrated to the United States
Oct 21, 1856 – Grapeshot revolver patented
Bruce Lee
(Nov 27, 1940 – July 20, 1973)
#Respect Continue reading →
Rex Applegate
June 21, 1914 – July 14, 1998
- American military officer
- worked for the Office of Strategic Services during World War II
- 1941 – developing armed and unarmed close quarter combat courses for the US Army
- served as the personal bodyguard to President Franklin D Roosevelt
- advisor to the government of Mexico “Honorary General”
- Tought John Wayne how to shoot
- technical advisor on the set of The Alamo
- Applegate was said to be the source and inspiration for several of Ian Fleming’s characters in the James Bond novels
- 1943 he wrote Kill or Get Killed
a classic manual of Western-style hand-to-hand combat.
- 1976 Kill or Get Killed was published by the US Marine Corps as Fleet Marine Force Reference Publication 12-80
- 1941 Applegate-Fairbairn fighting knife
- 1993 – Combat Use of the Double-Edged Fighting Knife
April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826
Thomas Jefferson was born
third President of the United States from 1801 to 1809
#ThomasJefferson
#GunChannels #MyFavoriteFounder #WeNeedMoreJeffersons #Monticello
May 6, 1836 – July 1, 1901
During the American Civil War – worked at the Colt plant in Hartford
1863 – Starting making pistols in New Haven, Connecticut
1881 – lever-action repeating rifle
sons Mahlon Henry and John Howard took over the company after their father’s death in 1901
John Taliaferro Thompson
Dec 31, 1860 – June 21, 1940
USA
- Thompson submachine gun 1920
- One of only seven individuals have invented firearms adopted by the United States Military
Jonathan Browning
October 22, 1805 – June 21, 1879
American inventor/ gunsmith
born in Tennessee
producing firearms independently by 1831
living in Quincy, Illinois
invented a “sliding breech” repeating rifle also called a Harmonica gun between 1834 and 1842
William E. Fairbairn
February 28, 1885 – June 20, 1960 (75)
- 1901 – British Royal Marine
- Police Officer
- 1907 – Shanghai Police during the interwar period
- 1941 – Trained allied special forces during World War II
- Received the U.S. Legion of Merit (Officer grade)
at the request of OSS-founder “Wild Bill” Donovan
- 1951 – Firearms Instructor
Developed hand-to-hand combat methods
1926 – Created his own fighting system known as Defendu
included innovative pistol shooting techniques
1941 – Developed the Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife
John Wayne “Duke”
American film actor, director, and producer.
Born: May 26, 1907
Died: June 11, 1979
Between 1949 and 1973
Wayne was in more than 169 feature length films
#JohnWayne #TheDuke #WesternMovies #Cowboy
Reverend John Forsyth
Dec 28, 1769 – June 11, 1843
Scotland
1805 – Percussion Cap ignition system
Benjamin Tyler Henry
March 22, 1821 – June 8, 1898
Walter Hunt – Died (63)
July 29, 1796 – June 8, 1859
- 1848 Volcanic
- Firing cock repeating gun Patent 6663
- lockstitch sewing machine (1833)
- safety pin (1849)
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Paul Mauser
June 27, 1838 – May 29, 1914
1889 – Germany Gewehr 98 and Karabiner 98k
1889 – 7.65×53mm Mauser rifle cartridges
1892 – 7×57mm Mauser rifle cartridges
Nikolay Fyodorovich Makarov
(Никола́й Фёдорович Мака́ров)
May 22, 1914 – May 13, 1988
Designer of Makarov Pistol
#GunChannels
#GunWebsites #Makarov #CommiePistols
#RussianGuns
Feb 5, 1883 – May 12, 1945 (62)
Eric A. Sykes
Instructor
ting
Hudson Maxim
(February 3, 1853 – May 6, 1927)
Invented Smokeless Gun Powder (in the USA) in 1890
*Brother of the Machine Gun Inventor
**Uncle of the Suppressor Inventor
***No left hand (he blew it off inventing explosives)
#SmokelessPowder
#GunPowder
#Maxim
Sergei Gavrilovich Simonov – Died
April 9, 1894 – May 6, 1986
Sergei Gavrilovich Simonov, Russia
1945 – SKS
Richard J. “Dick” Casull
February 15, 1931 – May 6, 2018 (87)
Gunsmith and Wildcat Cartridge Developer
Creator of the .454 Casull cartridge & More..
1957 – .454 Casull cartridge
1966 – Casull Model 290
– 290-round detachable pan magazine
– MSRP $1060 !!
– only 87 manufactured
1967 – all production of Model 290 stopped
1970 – American-180, AM-180, or A180
– 177-round pan magazine
– fires at 1200 rounds per minute
1971 – Casull developed a mini-revolver design
– Rocky Mountain Arms Corp
– RMAC of Salt Lake City, Utah
1975 – Rocky Mountain ceased operation
1978 – Casull became partners with Wayne Baker in Freedom Arms, based in Freedom, Wyoming
1983 – Freedom Arms Model 83, 5-shot prototypes on Ruger Super Blackhawk frames chambered in .454 Casull
1988 – Freedom Arms ended mini revolver production
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Kijirō Nambu
Sept 22, 1869 – May 1, 1949 (80)
1902 nnnthe “John Browning of Japan”
1914 Type 3 Heavy Machine Gun
1922 Type 11 Light Machine Gun in
1927 Nambu Arms Manufacturing Company in Tokyo
Eugene Morrison Stoner
(November 22, 1922 – April 24, 1997)
American firearms designer who is most associated with the development of the AR-15 rifle that was adopted by the US military as the M16
Roy E. Weatherby
(September 4, 1910 – April 4, 1988)
age 77
Roy founded Weatherby, Inc. In 1945
@weatherbyinc
#GunChannels
#GunLegends #TalesOfTheGun
#KnowGuns #GunLife #GunHistory
Hiram Berdan
Sept 6, 1824 – March 31, 1893 (59)
March 20, 1866 – Berdan centerfire primer
Rollin White (75)
June 6, 1817 – March 22, 1892
Christian Sharps
Jan 2, 1810 – March 12, 1874
USA
- Sharps rifle, 4 barrel derringer 1851
- 1855 the first commercially successful breech-loading rifle
- fifteen firearms-related patents
Yisrael Galil
Jan 1, 1923 – Mar 9, 1995
Best known for inventing the Galil rifle. He also helped create the Uzi
#GunChannels
#GunHistory
#Galil #AK47
#Uzi
https://www.instagram.com/p/BCwpvQmqhXs/?taken-by=gunwebsites
June 14, 1871 – March 6, 1968
Fedor Tokarev – Died (96)
designer of the
- Tokarev TT-30 pistol
- TT-33 pistol
- Tokarev SVT-38 rifle
- SVT-40 rifle
Henry Deringer
October 26, 1786 – February 28, 1868
USA
Richard Gatling
(Sep 12, 1818 – Feb 26, 1903)
Gatling gun was named after him
#GatlingGun
#GunWebsites
James Paris Lee – (72)
August 9, 1831 – February 24, 1904
Inventor invented action and magazine used in Lee–Metford and Lee–Enfield
1843 – built his first gun at the age of 12
1861 – Developed a breech loading cartridge conversion for the Springfield musket Model 1861
Acquired a contract for 1,000 rifles from the US Army during the American Civil War.
November 4th, 1879 – patent #221,328 for the vertical box magazine
Ludwig Vorgrimler
September 7, 1912 – February 23, 1983 (71)
German Firearm Inventor
Robert Lowell “Robin” Moore, Jr.
(October 31, 1925 – February 21, 2008)
an American writer who is most known for his books
- The Green Berets
- The French Connection
A True Account of Cops, Narcotics, and International Conspiracy
- The Happy Hooker: My Own Story
(with Xaviera Hollander and Yvonne Dunleavy)
Continue reading →
Eugene Reising
Nov 26, 1884 – Feb 21, 1967
USA
- M50 Reising 1938
- One of only seven individuals have invented firearms adopted by the United States Military
- more than 60 firearm patents
Worked with:
- Harrington & Richardson
- Mossberg & Sons
- Marlin
- Savage
- Stevens
Hiram Percy Maxim
Sept 2, 1869 – Feb 17, 1936
age 66
* He was the son of Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, inventor of the Maxim Machine gun
- Hiram Percy Maxim patented a suppressor for firearms in 1908 Also invented a muffler for gasoline engines.
- Maxim created the ARRL in 1914 to pass messages via amateur radio, allowing them to travel farther than any single station’s reach.
- Maxim founded the Amateur Cinema League in 1926#Suppressor #StopTheNoise #QuietLife #CanLifestyle
John Cantius Garand
Jan 1, 1888 – Feb 16, 1974 (86)
Canada / USA
1928 M1 Garand
One of only seven individuals have invented firearms adopted by the United States Military
Feb 17, 1930 – Feb 15, 2003
Maxwell G. Atchisson – (73)
- AA12 (Atchisson Assault 12),
- Lightning Link,
- 1972 – .22 caliber conversion kit for the AR-15
- granted twenty-four patents
ne Gun
Sergei Ivanovich Mosin
Серге́й Ива́нович Мо́син
April (2 or 14), 1849 – Feb 8, 1902 (52)
Mosin was a weapons designer at Tula who collaborated with Nagant to design the Mosin Nagant rifle
#MosinNagant
#RussianGuns
Alexander Henry
June 4, 1818 – Jan 27, 1894
Scotland
1870 Martini – Henry
Horace Smith
Oct 28, 1808 – Jan 15, 1893 (85)
Christopher Miner Spencer
June 20, 1833 – Jan 14, 1922
USA
- Spencer repeating rifle 1860 Colt
- Spencer Arms Company
- Roper Repeating Arms Company
Wilhelm Mauser
May 2, 1834 – Jan 13, 1882
Designed the Mauser Model 1871 rifle
#Rifle #Mauser #RealGuns #FirearmsHistory
Arisaka Nariakira
April 5, 1852 – Jan 12, 1915
Japan
1897 – Type 30 Rifle
Melvin M. Johnson Jr
Aug 9, 1909 – Jan 9, 1965
USA
- M1941 Johnson rifle 1935
- One of only seven individuals have invented firearms adopted by the United States Military
- Marine Corps Reserve in 1933 as a Second Lieutenant
- completed Harvard Law School in 1934
Worked With:
David “Carbine” Marshall Williams
Nov 13, 1900 – Jan 8, 1975
floating chamber and the short-stroke piston
Colt Manufacturing Company, U.S. Ordnance Department, Remington Arms, Winchester Repeating Arms
Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov
Михаи́л Тимофе́евич Кала́шников
(November 10, 1919 – December 23, 2013)
Russian general, inventor, military engineer, writer and small arms designer.
Georg Johann Luger
March 6, 1849 – Dec 22, 1923
Designed of the Luger pistol and the 9×19mm Parabellum cartridge.
#GunHistory
#9mm #Luger
Oliver Fisher Winchester (90)
November 30, 1810 – December 11, 1880 Continue reading →
Herman Krag
Ole Herman Johannes Krag
April 7, 1837 – Dec 9, 1916
Norway
1886, Krag–Petersson Rifle
1872,Krag–Jørgensen Rifle
John Moses Browning
Jan. 23, 1855 – Nov. 26, 1926
Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim
(Feb 5, 1840 – Nov 24, 1916)
Invented the Maxim Gun
In 1883: the first recoil-operated machine gun
* Father of Suppressor Inventor
** Brother of Smokeless Gun Powder Inventor
#Maxim #MachineGun
#1stMachineGun
Gordon Ingram
Dec 30, 1924 – Nov 4, 2004
USA
1964 – MAC-10
May 13, 1857 – Sept 22, 1938
1899 Savage Model 99 lever-action rifle
1894 Savage started Savage Arms
Gen. Ambrose Burnside
(May 23, 1824 – September 13, 1881)
– 1843-1847 United States Military Academy – graduated 18th in a class of 47
– 1847–1853 Mexican–American War (1st Lieutenant)
– 1853 manufactured the Burnside carbine
– 1861 – 1865 Civil War, Major General
– 1866-1869 Governor of Rhode Island
– 1871 NRA’s first President
– 1875-1881 U.S. Senator from Rhode Island
– His distinctive style of facial hair became known as sideburns
Hugo Schmeisser
Sept 24, 1884 – Sept 12, 1953 (69)
- 1928 MP-28
- 1938 MP-43
- 1944 Sturmgewehr 44
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Henry Quackenbush
April 27, 1847 – Sept 8, 1933 (86)
1876 – father of the mass produced air gun
ssdd
Mr. Uziel Gal
(December 15, 1923 – September 7, 2002)
Uziel Gal (79), the inventor of Israel’s Uzi submachine gun,
Uziel (Uzi) Gal was born on 15 December 1923, as Gothard Glas.
He died in Philadelphia of a long illness
#UZI #Uzi9mm
Eliphalet Remington
Oct 28, 1793 – Aug 12, 1861
USA
1840 formed E. Remington and Sons
hand-made a flintlock rifle using a firing mechanism bought from a gunsmith
Yevgeny Fyodorovich Dragunov (71)
(Евге́ний Фёдорович Драгуно́в)
Born Feb 20, 1920 – Aug 4, 1991
1939 – Began military service
1959 – Dragunov submitted his design for the SVD
1963 – SVD accepted into Soviet military service
Calamity Jane
May 1, 1852 – August 1, 1903
American frontierswoman and professional scout and acquaintance of Wild Bill Hickok
#RealGuns
#CowboyGuns
#GunHistory
Bruce Lee
(Nov 27, 1940 – July 20, 1973)
#Respect Continue reading →
April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826
Thomas Jefferson was born
third President of the United States from 1801 to 1809
#ThomasJefferson
#GunChannels #MyFavoriteFounder #WeNeedMoreJeffersons #Monticello
John Taliaferro Thompson
Dec 31, 1860 – June 21, 1940
USA
- Thompson submachine gun 1920
- One of only seven individuals have invented firearms adopted by the United States Military
John Wayne “Duke”
American film actor, director, and producer.
Born: May 26, 1907
Died: June 11, 1979
Between 1949 and 1973
Wayne was in more than 169 feature length films
#JohnWayne #TheDuke #WesternMovies #Cowboy
Reverend John Forsyth
Dec 28, 1769 – June 11, 1843
Scotland
1805 – Percussion Cap ignition system
Nikolay Fyodorovich Makarov
(Никола́й Фёдорович Мака́ров)
May 22, 1914 – May 13, 1988
Designer of Makarov Pistol
#GunChannels
#GunWebsites #Makarov #CommiePistols
#RussianGuns
Hudson Maxim
(February 3, 1853 – May 6, 1927)
Invented Smokeless Gun Powder (in the USA) in 1890
*Brother of the Machine Gun Inventor
**Uncle of the Suppressor Inventor
***No left hand (he blew it off inventing explosives)
#SmokelessPowder
#GunPowder
#Maxim
Eugene Morrison Stoner
(November 22, 1922 – April 24, 1997)
American firearms designer who is most associated with the development of the AR-15 rifle that was adopted by the US military as the M16
Herman Krag
Ole Herman Johannes Krag
April 7, 1837 – Dec 9, 1916
Norway
1886, Krag–Petersson Rifle
1872,Krag–Jørgensen Rifle
Roy E. Weatherby
(September 4, 1910 – April 4, 1988)
age 77
Roy founded Weatherby, Inc. In 1945
@weatherbyinc
#GunChannels
#GunLegends #TalesOfTheGun
#KnowGuns #GunLife #GunHistory
Yisrael Galil
Jan 1, 1923 – Mar 9, 1995
Best known for inventing the Galil rifle. He also helped create the Uzi
#GunChannels
#GunHistory
#Galil #AK47
#Uzi
Richard Gatling
(Sep 12, 1818 – Feb 26, 1903)
Gatling gun was named after him
#GatlingGun
#GunWebsites
Robert Lowell “Robin” Moore, Jr.
(October 31, 1925 – February 21, 2008)
an American writer who is most known for his books
- The Green Berets
- The French Connection
A True Account of Cops, Narcotics, and International Conspiracy
- The Happy Hooker: My Own Story
(with Xaviera Hollander and Yvonne Dunleavy)
Continue reading →
Hiram Percy Maxim
Sept 2, 1869 – Feb 17, 1936
age 66
* He was the son of Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, inventor of the Maxim Machine gun
- Hiram Percy Maxim patented a suppressor for firearms in 1908 Also invented a muffler for gasoline engines.
- Maxim created the ARRL in 1914 to pass messages via amateur radio, allowing them to travel farther than any single station’s reach.
- Maxim founded the Amateur Cinema League in 1926#Suppressor #StopTheNoise #QuietLife #CanLifestyle
Sergei Ivanovich Mosin
Серге́й Ива́нович Мо́син
April (2 or 14), 1849 – Feb 8, 1902 (52)
Mosin was a weapons designer at Tula who collaborated with Nagant to design the Mosin Nagant rifle
#MosinNagant
#RussianGuns
Wilhelm Mauser
May 2, 1834 – Jan 13, 1882
Designed the Mauser Model 1871 rifle
#Rifle #Mauser #RealGuns #FirearmsHistory
July 19, 1814 – January 10, 1862
Samuel Colt born, inventor of the first practical revolver,
1814 – 1862
Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov
Михаи́л Тимофе́евич Кала́шников
(November 10, 1919 – December 23, 2013)
Russian general, inventor, military engineer, writer and small arms designer.
Georg Johann Luger
March 6, 1849 – Dec 22, 1923
Designed of the Luger pistol and the 9×19mm Parabellum cartridge.
#GunHistory
#9mm #Luger
Oliver Fisher Winchester (90)
November 30, 1810 – December 11, 1880 Continue reading →
John Moses Browning
Jan. 23, 1855 – Nov. 26, 1926
Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim
(Feb 5, 1840 – Nov 24, 1916)
Invented the Maxim Gun
In 1883: the first recoil-operated machine gun
* Father of Suppressor Inventor
** Brother of Smokeless Gun Powder Inventor
#Maxim #MachineGun
#1stMachineGun
Mr. Uziel Gal
(December 15, 1923 – September 7, 2002)
Uziel Gal (79), the inventor of Israel’s Uzi submachine gun,
Uziel (Uzi) Gal was born on 15 December 1923, as Gothard Glas.
He died in Philadelphia of a long illness
#UZI #Uzi9mm
Yevgeny Fyodorovich Dragunov (71)
(Евге́ний Фёдорович Драгуно́в)
Born Feb 20, 1920 – Aug 4, 1991
1939 – Began military service
1959 – Dragunov submitted his design for the SVD
1963 – SVD accepted into Soviet military service
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Calamity Jane
May 1, 1852 – August 1, 1903
American frontierswoman and professional scout and acquaintance of Wild Bill Hickok
#RealGuns
#CowboyGuns
#GunHistory
Bruce Lee
(Nov 27, 1940 – July 20, 1973)
#Respect Continue reading →
William Ruger
Born June 21, 1916 – July 6, 2002
April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826
Thomas Jefferson was born
third President of the United States from 1801 to 1809
#ThomasJefferson
#GunChannels #MyFavoriteFounder #WeNeedMoreJeffersons #Monticello
John Wayne “Duke”
American film actor, director, and producer.
Born: May 26, 1907
Died: June 11, 1979
Between 1949 and 1973
Wayne was in more than 169 feature length films
#JohnWayne #TheDuke #WesternMovies #Cowboy
Nikolay Fyodorovich Makarov
(Никола́й Фёдорович Мака́ров)
May 22, 1914 – May 13, 1988
Designer of Makarov Pistol
#GunChannels
#GunWebsites #Makarov #CommiePistols
#RussianGuns
Hudson Maxim
(February 3, 1853 – May 6, 1927)
Invented Smokeless Gun Powder (in the USA) in 1890
*Brother of the Machine Gun Inventor
**Uncle of the Suppressor Inventor
***No left hand (he blew it off inventing explosives)
#SmokelessPowder
#GunPowder
#Maxim
Eugene Morrison Stoner
(November 22, 1922 – April 24, 1997)
American firearms designer who is most associated with the development of the AR-15 rifle that was adopted by the US military as the M16
Roy E. Weatherby
(September 4, 1910 – April 4, 1988)
age 77
Roy founded Weatherby, Inc. In 1945
@weatherbyinc
#GunChannels
#GunLegends #TalesOfTheGun
#KnowGuns #GunLife #GunHistory
Yisrael Galil
Jan 1, 1923 – Mar 9, 1995
Best known for inventing the Galil rifle. He also helped create the Uzi
#GunChannels
#GunHistory
#Galil #AK47
#Uzi
Richard Gatling
(Sep 12, 1818 – Feb 26, 1903)
Gatling gun was named after him
#GatlingGun
#GunWebsites
Robert Lowell “Robin” Moore, Jr.
(October 31, 1925 – February 21, 2008)
an American writer who is most known for his books
- The Green Berets
- The French Connection
A True Account of Cops, Narcotics, and International Conspiracy
- The Happy Hooker: My Own Story
(with Xaviera Hollander and Yvonne Dunleavy)
Continue reading →
Hiram Percy Maxim
Sept 2, 1869 – Feb 17, 1936
age 66
* He was the son of Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, inventor of the Maxim Machine gun
- Hiram Percy Maxim patented a suppressor for firearms in 1908 Also invented a muffler for gasoline engines.
- Maxim created the ARRL in 1914 to pass messages via amateur radio, allowing them to travel farther than any single station’s reach.
- Maxim founded the Amateur Cinema League in 1926#Suppressor #StopTheNoise #QuietLife #CanLifestyle
Sergei Ivanovich Mosin
Серге́й Ива́нович Мо́син
April (2 or 14), 1849 – Feb 8, 1902 (52)
Mosin was a weapons designer at Tula who collaborated with Nagant to design the Mosin Nagant rifle
#MosinNagant
#RussianGuns
Wilhelm Mauser
May 2, 1834 – Jan 13, 1882
Designed the Mauser Model 1871 rifle
#Rifle #Mauser #RealGuns #FirearmsHistory
July 19, 1814 – January 10, 1862
Samuel Colt born, inventor of the first practical revolver,
1814 – 1862
Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov
Михаи́л Тимофе́евич Кала́шников
(November 10, 1919 – December 23, 2013)
Russian general, inventor, military engineer, writer and small arms designer.
Georg Johann Luger
March 6, 1849 – Dec 22, 1923
Designed of the Luger pistol and the 9×19mm Parabellum cartridge.
#GunHistory
#9mm #Luger
Oliver Fisher Winchester (90)
November 30, 1810 – December 11, 1880 Continue reading →
John Moses Browning
Jan. 23, 1855 – Nov. 26, 1926
Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim
(Feb 5, 1840 – Nov 24, 1916)
Invented the Maxim Gun
In 1883: the first recoil-operated machine gun
* Father of Suppressor Inventor
** Brother of Smokeless Gun Powder Inventor
#Maxim #MachineGun
#1stMachineGun
Mr. Uziel Gal
(December 15, 1923 – September 7, 2002)
Uziel Gal (79), the inventor of Israel’s Uzi submachine gun,
Uziel (Uzi) Gal was born on 15 December 1923, as Gothard Glas.
He died in Philadelphia of a long illness
#UZI #Uzi9mm
Yevgeny Fyodorovich Dragunov (71)
(Евге́ний Фёдорович Драгуно́в)
Born Feb 20, 1920 – Aug 4, 1991
1939 – Began military service
1959 – Dragunov submitted his design for the SVD
1963 – SVD accepted into Soviet military service
Calamity Jane
May 1, 1852 – August 1, 1903
American frontierswoman and professional scout and acquaintance of Wild Bill Hickok
#RealGuns
#CowboyGuns
#GunHistory
Bruce Lee
(Nov 27, 1940 – July 20, 1973)
#Respect Continue reading →
April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826
Thomas Jefferson was born
third President of the United States from 1801 to 1809
#ThomasJefferson
#GunChannels #MyFavoriteFounder #WeNeedMoreJeffersons #Monticello
John Wayne “Duke”
American film actor, director, and producer.
Born: May 26, 1907
Died: June 11, 1979
Between 1949 and 1973
Wayne was in more than 169 feature length films
#JohnWayne #TheDuke #WesternMovies #Cowboy
Nikolay Fyodorovich Makarov
(Никола́й Фёдорович Мака́ров)
May 22, 1914 – May 13, 1988
Designer of Makarov Pistol
#GunChannels
#GunWebsites #Makarov #CommiePistols
#RussianGuns
Hudson Maxim
(February 3, 1853 – May 6, 1927)
Invented Smokeless Gun Powder (in the USA) in 1890
*Brother of the Machine Gun Inventor
**Uncle of the Suppressor Inventor
***No left hand (he blew it off inventing explosives)
#SmokelessPowder
#GunPowder
#Maxim
Eugene Morrison Stoner
(November 22, 1922 – April 24, 1997)
American firearms designer who is most associated with the development of the AR-15 rifle that was adopted by the US military as the M16
Roy E. Weatherby
(September 4, 1910 – April 4, 1988)
age 77
Roy founded Weatherby, Inc. In 1945
@weatherbyinc
#GunChannels
#GunLegends #TalesOfTheGun
#KnowGuns #GunLife #GunHistory
Yisrael Galil
Jan 1, 1923 – Mar 9, 1995
Best known for inventing the Galil rifle. He also helped create the Uzi
#GunChannels
#GunHistory
#Galil #AK47
#Uzi
Richard Gatling
(Sep 12, 1818 – Feb 26, 1903)
Gatling gun was named after him
#GatlingGun
#GunWebsites
Robert Lowell “Robin” Moore, Jr.
(October 31, 1925 – February 21, 2008)
an American writer who is most known for his books
- The Green Berets
- The French Connection
A True Account of Cops, Narcotics, and International Conspiracy
- The Happy Hooker: My Own Story
(with Xaviera Hollander and Yvonne Dunleavy)
Continue reading →
Hiram Percy Maxim
Sept 2, 1869 – Feb 17, 1936
age 66
* He was the son of Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, inventor of the Maxim Machine gun
- Hiram Percy Maxim patented a suppressor for firearms in 1908 Also invented a muffler for gasoline engines.
- Maxim created the ARRL in 1914 to pass messages via amateur radio, allowing them to travel farther than any single station’s reach.
- Maxim founded the Amateur Cinema League in 1926#Suppressor #StopTheNoise #QuietLife #CanLifestyle
Wilhelm Mauser
May 2, 1834 – Jan 13, 1882
Designed the Mauser Model 1871 rifle
#Rifle #Mauser #RealGuns #FirearmsHistory
Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov
Михаи́л Тимофе́евич Кала́шников
(November 10, 1919 – December 23, 2013)
Russian general, inventor, military engineer, writer and small arms designer.
– 1966 testified before Congressional committees at least fifty times, before the House Subcommittee on Crime against what eventually became the Gun Control Act of 1968