A harmonica gun, also called a slide gun, is a firearm design that is breech loaded with a steel slide bored with a number of chambers filled with projectiles. Most harmonica guns are percussion cap guns, though some designs exist as compressed air guns and some examples were made in pinfire cartridge form. In percussion cap versions each chamber holds a separate primer, powder charge and projectile, and the slide is inserted into an opening in the breech and advanced by hand after releasing a camlock. The design was made in both pistol and rifle models, in single-action and double-action versions.
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A harmonica gun or slide gun is a firearm design which was breech loaded with a steel slide, containing a number of chambers bored in it that were filled with projectiles.
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The earliest example of a harmonica gun is probably the one constructed by the Swiss inventor Welten in 1742.
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