The program ends with a paean to Smith and Wesson's history in gun manufacture, but the thing is they've stuck to revolvers and semi-automatics are now the pistols du jour. My first though was, "My God, has EVERYONE started to imitate Dirty Harry?" Then, when I saw the actual bears, the ones that frightened the villagers themselves, I understood. As an anthropologist I studied the Tlingit Indians on Chichigoff Island in Alaska and found an occasional empty magnum cartridge on the forest floor. To publicize the new gun, Douglas made hunting trips to Montana and Alaska. 357 magnum, named as it was because Wesson enjoyed drinking champagne in quantity. Law enforcement demanded a pistol that would defeat these features and in 1935 Smith's son, Douglas, designed the first. But the outlaws of the 30s were using automatic weapons, bullet-proof glass, and armor left over from World War I. That's one of the reasons the pistols we see in early gangster movies weren't usually monsters like the Army's. Smith and Wesson responded by manufacturing smaller caliber, double action revolvers that could be hidden in a pocket. As the population grew towards 1900, cities began to ban the open carrying of guns. Interesting point in the evolution of the pistol. Digby Baltzell, who coined the term "WASP", - have written on the tradition if anyone is interested in looking it up. His will left his family comfortable but the bulk of his estate went to Harvard. The company also added a subcompact model, the M469 which performed. A Boston Brahmin and Supreme Court Chief Justice (and Civil War veteran) Oliver Wendell Holmes was another example. Known as 3-digit weapons, these pistols solved the problems of releasing JHP ammunition. It wasn't the individual that mattered, it was the community of which he was a member, and education was at the core of the community. I'm not picking on anyone else when I say that this was rather a tradition among New Englanders. Wesson, in turn, founded two of Springfield's hospitals. There is still a Smith scholarship today. He spent his remaining years doing charitable work. By 1877, one partner, Smith was in his sixties and in retiring he sold all the rights to the company to his partner Wesson for what was a piddling sum. But three years later, Colt brought out the famous. 44," he's talking about toting the Smith and Wesson Model 3. When Gene Autry sings about "totin' my old. 44 caliber Smith and Wesson was a popular gun in the American West. Over the next decade the Russians ordered more than 160,000 pistols. The Czar placed a massive order for 20,000 pistols in 1871. Russia at the time ruled an empire and contracted for the delivery of a. The manufacturing facilities were already there, so Smith and Wesson cultivated the foreign trade. By 1867 the United States was the most heavily armed country in the world. So did Colt and other, more minor, companies. 32 caliber revolvers were much in demand during the Civil War and, despite innumerable legal tangles, the company and its owners prospered. The industrial vigor of the North was the cost the South dearly in the Civil War of 1861 to 1865. They invented the speed loader for revolvers. Something in the water? But experimentation with guns and innovations in other industries were booming in the area in the 1840s, when Smith and Wesson developed (or rather stole) the first self-contained cartridge, the kind we're familiar with today. I have no idea why all these innovations came from Connecticut or nearby locations. government's Springfield Armory, the museum of which you can visit today if you're in the neighborhood. And just across the border in Massachusetts was the U. A smith named Henry - as in "Henry repeating rifle" - was hired by Winchester. So was Winchester and so was Samuel Colt.
This page uses Creative Commons Licensed content from Wikipedia ( view authors).Wesson and Smith were both gunsmiths from Connecticut. Both the 910 and its predecessor, the very similar S&W 915, are essentially budget-priced versions of Smith and Wesson's highly successful 59 series, full-sized double-action 9mm's with staggered-stack magazines.Ī variant is the Smith & Wesson Model 908, which is similar to the Model 910, with the exception of a three inch barrel and a single stack magazine.
The sighting system of the Model 910 consists of high visibility three-dot fixed sights. The Model 910 pistol features a double action/single action trigger and has a four-inch barrel, an aluminum alloy frame, and a slide-mounted de-cocking safety (similar to the one on the MIL-SPEC M9 Beretta pistol). The Smith & Wesson Model 910 is a full-sized, 9×19mm Parabellum (9mm Luger), short recoil operated, semi-automatic pistol that was introduced by Smith & Wesson in 1995.
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