Tag Archives: Died

Don Kates – (Died)

Don Kates – Born

Jan 26, 1941

2A Activist His scholarship and litigation played part in modern renaissance of 2A

Louis Awerbuck (Died)

Louis Awerbuck

Jan 27, 1948 – June 24, 2014

Firearm Instructor


John Pedersen – Died (70)

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

Tom Deeb (Died)

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 – Died (10)

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


Elisha Collier (Died)

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

Bill H.L Richardson – Died (92)

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

“Buffalo Bill” Cody (died)

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

 

 

Annie Oakley – Died

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

Annie Oakley – Died

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 – (Died)

Don Kates – Born

Jan 26, 1941

2A Activist His scholarship and litigation played part in modern renaissance of 2A

Jean LeMat (died)

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 – Died

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 (died)

Carl Walther
Nov 22, 1858 – July 9, 1915

1886 founded the firm of Carl Walther GmbH, (Walther)
1908 Germany Model 1 (.25acp)

John Marlin (died)

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 (Died)

Louis Awerbuck

Jan 27, 1948 – June 24, 2014

Firearm Instructor


Jonathan Browning (Died)

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 Fairbairn – Died (75)

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

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 (Died)

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

John Pedersen – Died (70)

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

Dick Casull – Died (87)

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 (Died)

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 (Died)

Hiram Berdan
Sept 6, 1824 – March 31, 1893 (59)

March 20, 1866 – Berdan centerfire primer

Tom Deeb (Died)

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 – Died (10)

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


Fedor Tokarev – Died (96)

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

James Paris Lee – Died (72)

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

Elisha Collier (Died)

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

Neal Knox (Died)

Clifford “Neal” Knox

(June 20, 1935 – January 17, 2005)

– 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
– 1977 The NRA Cincinnati Revolt
– 1978-1982 Executive Director of NRA Institute for Legislative Action (ILA)
– 1984 Founder & chairman of the Firearms Coalition
– founding editor of Gun Week
– editor of Handloader Magazine
– founding editor of Rifle Magazine– – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Knox

Bill H.L Richardson – Died (92)

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

“Buffalo Bill” Cody (died)

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

 

 

Don Kates – (Died)

Don Kates – Born

Jan 26, 1941

2A Activist His scholarship and litigation played part in modern renaissance of 2A

Gen. Ambrose Burnside (Died)

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 (Died)

Hugo Schmeisser
Sept 24, 1884 – Sept 12, 1953 (69)

  • 1928 MP-28
  • 1938 MP-43
  • 1944 Sturmgewehr 44

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Henry Quackenbush (Died)

Henry Quackenbush
April 27, 1847 – Sept 8, 1933 (86)

1876 – father of the mass produced air gun

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Eliphalet Remington (Died)

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

Jean LeMat (died)

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 – Died

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


John Marlin (died)

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 (Died)

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 Thompson (Died)

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 (Died)

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 Fairbairn – Died (75)

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

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 (Died)

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

John Pedersen – Died (70)

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

Dick Casull – Died (87)

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 (Died)

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 (Died)

Hiram Berdan
Sept 6, 1824 – March 31, 1893 (59)

March 20, 1866 – Berdan centerfire primer

Tom Deeb (Died)

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

Sgt Stubby – Died (10)

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 (Died)

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

Fedor Tokarev – Died (96)

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

James Paris Lee – Died (72)

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

Eugene Reising (Died)

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 (Died)

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 Mosin, Died at 52 (1902)

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

Elisha Collier (Died)

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

Neal Knox (Died)

Clifford “Neal” Knox

(June 20, 1935 – January 17, 2005)

– 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
– 1977 The NRA Cincinnati Revolt
– 1978-1982 Executive Director of NRA Institute for Legislative Action (ILA)
– 1984 Founder & chairman of the Firearms Coalition
– founding editor of Gun Week
– editor of Handloader Magazine
– founding editor of Rifle Magazine– – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Knox

Christopher Spencer (Died)

Christopher Miner Spencer
June 20, 1833 – Jan 14, 1922

USA

  • Spencer repeating rifle 1860 Colt
  • Spencer Arms Company
  • Roper Repeating Arms Company

Bill H.L Richardson – Died (92)

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

“Buffalo Bill” Cody (died)

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 (Died)

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:

  • Winchester
  • Armalite

David “Carbine” Marshall Williams (died)

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 Kalashnikov (94) Died

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Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov
Михаи́л Тимофе́евич Кала́шников
(November 10, 1919 – December 23, 2013)

Russian general, inventor, military engineer, writer and small arms designer.

R.I.P. Mr K #Kalashnikov #KCA @ak47buyersguide

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Georg Luger (74) Died

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Georg Johann Luger
March 6, 1849 – Dec 22, 1923
Designed of the Luger pistol and the 9×19mm Parabellum cartridge.

#GunHistory
#9mm #Luger

 

Sir Hiram Maxim (76) Died

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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

 

Annie Oakley – Died

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

Gen. Ambrose Burnside (Died)

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 (Died)

Hugo Schmeisser
Sept 24, 1884 – Sept 12, 1953 (69)

  • 1928 MP-28
  • 1938 MP-43
  • 1944 Sturmgewehr 44

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Henry Quackenbush (Died)

Henry Quackenbush
April 27, 1847 – Sept 8, 1933 (86)

1876 – father of the mass produced air gun

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Uziel Gal (79) Died

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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 (Died)

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

Calamity Jane (51) Died

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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

Jean LeMat (died)

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 – Died

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


Thomas Jefferson (83) Died

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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 Marlin (died)

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 Thompson (Died)

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 (Died)

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 Fairbairn – Died (75)

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” (72) Died

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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

Walter Hunt – Died

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 (Died)

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 Makarov (74) Died

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Nikolay Fyodorovich Makarov
(Никола́й Фёдорович Мака́ров)
May 22, 1914 – May 13, 1988

Designer of Makarov Pistol

#GunChannels
#GunWebsites #Makarov #CommiePistols
#RussianGuns

Hudson Maxim (74) Died

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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

Dick Casull – Died (87)

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 (Died)

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

Roy E. Weatherby (77) Died

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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 (Died)

Hiram Berdan
Sept 6, 1824 – March 31, 1893 (59)

March 20, 1866 – Berdan centerfire primer

Christian Sharps (Died)

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 (72) Died

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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

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Fedor Tokarev – Died (96)

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

James Paris Lee – Died (72)

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

Eugene Reising (Died)

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 (66) Died

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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 (Died)

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

Sergei Mosin, Died at 52 (1902)

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

Neal Knox (Died)

Clifford “Neal” Knox

(June 20, 1935 – January 17, 2005)

– 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
– 1977 The NRA Cincinnati Revolt
– 1978-1982 Executive Director of NRA Institute for Legislative Action (ILA)
– 1984 Founder & chairman of the Firearms Coalition
– founding editor of Gun Week
– editor of Handloader Magazine
– founding editor of Rifle Magazine– – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Knox

Christopher Spencer (Died)

Christopher Miner Spencer
June 20, 1833 – Jan 14, 1922

USA

  • Spencer repeating rifle 1860 Colt
  • Spencer Arms Company
  • Roper Repeating Arms Company

Melvin M. Johnson Jr (Died)

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:

  • Winchester
  • Armalite

David “Carbine” Marshall Williams (died)

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 Kalashnikov (94) Died

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Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov
Михаи́л Тимофе́евич Кала́шников
(November 10, 1919 – December 23, 2013)

Russian general, inventor, military engineer, writer and small arms designer.

R.I.P. Mr K #Kalashnikov #KCA @ak47buyersguide

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Sir Hiram Maxim (76) Died

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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

 

Gen. Ambrose Burnside (Died)

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 (Died)

Hugo Schmeisser
Sept 24, 1884 – Sept 12, 1953 (69)

  • 1928 MP-28
  • 1938 MP-43
  • 1944 Sturmgewehr 44

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Henry Quackenbush (Died)

Henry Quackenbush
April 27, 1847 – Sept 8, 1933 (86)

1876 – father of the mass produced air gun

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Uziel Gal (79) Died

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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 (Died)

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 Dragunov (71) Died

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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

Yevgeny Fyodorovich Dragunov Feb 20, 1920 – Aug 4, 1991 #SVD #Dragunov #RussianGuns Not an #AK47 #SniperRifle

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Calamity Jane (51) Died

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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

Thomas Jefferson (83) Died

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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 Thompson (Died)

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” (72) Died

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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 Makarov (74) Died

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Nikolay Fyodorovich Makarov
(Никола́й Фёдорович Мака́ров)
May 22, 1914 – May 13, 1988

Designer of Makarov Pistol

#GunChannels
#GunWebsites #Makarov #CommiePistols
#RussianGuns

Hudson Maxim (74) Died

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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

Roy E. Weatherby (77) Died

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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 (72) Died

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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

 

Hiram Percy Maxim (66) Died

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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 Mosin, Died at 52 (1902)

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

Mikhail Kalashnikov (94) Died

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Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov
Михаи́л Тимофе́евич Кала́шников
(November 10, 1919 – December 23, 2013)

Russian general, inventor, military engineer, writer and small arms designer.

R.I.P. Mr K #Kalashnikov #KCA @ak47buyersguide

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Sir Hiram Maxim (76) Died

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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

 

Uziel Gal (79) Died

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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

 

Calamity Jane (51) Died

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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

Thomas Jefferson (83) Died

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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” (72) Died

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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 Makarov (74) Died

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Nikolay Fyodorovich Makarov
(Никола́й Фёдорович Мака́ров)
May 22, 1914 – May 13, 1988

Designer of Makarov Pistol

#GunChannels
#GunWebsites #Makarov #CommiePistols
#RussianGuns

Hudson Maxim (74) Died

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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

Roy E. Weatherby (77) Died

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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 (72) Died

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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

 

Hiram Percy Maxim (66) Died

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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 Mosin, Died at 52 (1902)

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

Mikhail Kalashnikov (94) Died

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Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov
Михаи́л Тимофе́евич Кала́шников
(November 10, 1919 – December 23, 2013)

Russian general, inventor, military engineer, writer and small arms designer.

R.I.P. Mr K #Kalashnikov #KCA @ak47buyersguide

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Sir Hiram Maxim (76) Died

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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

 

Uziel Gal (79) Died

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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

 

Yevgeny Dragunov (71) Died

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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 (51) Died

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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

Thomas Jefferson (83) Died

Posted on by

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” (72) Died

Posted on by

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 Makarov (74) Died

Posted on by

Nikolay Fyodorovich Makarov
(Никола́й Фёдорович Мака́ров)
May 22, 1914 – May 13, 1988

Designer of Makarov Pistol

#GunChannels
#GunWebsites #Makarov #CommiePistols
#RussianGuns

Hudson Maxim (74) Died

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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

Roy E. Weatherby (77) Died

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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 (72) Died

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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

Hiram Percy Maxim (66) Died

Posted on by

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

Mikhail Kalashnikov (94) Died

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Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov
Михаи́л Тимофе́евич Кала́шников
(November 10, 1919 – December 23, 2013)

Russian general, inventor, military engineer, writer and small arms designer.

R.I.P. Mr K #Kalashnikov #KCA @ak47buyersguide

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