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Horace Smith

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establishment of Smith & Wesson

  • In Smith & Wesson

    …first founded in 1852 by Horace Smith (1808–93) and Daniel B. Wesson (1825–1906) in Norwich, Connecticut, to make lever-action Volcanic repeating handguns firing caseless self-consuming bullets. That venture failed, however, and the two men established a second partnership in 1856 in Springfield to produce small “tip-up” revolvers

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