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Revolvers

This is a child group of Pistols and Revolvers, collecting the Small Arms And Sidearms subcategory's revolving-cylinder handguns: single-action and double-action service and pocket revolvers, top-break and self-extracting designs, percussion-era revolvers predating cartridge ammunition, and specialty revolvers such as a gas-seal design and a revolver-family entry covering multiple related models. The 31 members span from black-powder percussion revolvers through modern double-action service revolvers, unified by the revolving cylinder that distinguishes this mechanism from the magazine-fed semi-automatic pistols classified in the sibling group. A revolver-cylinder shotgun and a revolver-cylinder grenade launcher are classified by their shell or launcher role instead, under this atlas's Shotguns and Other Small Arms and Personal Weapons groups respectively, since their bore and ammunition set them apart from a handgun despite the shared cylinder mechanism.

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1872 Swiss revolver

Small Arms And Sidearms

ADEN cannon

Small Arms And Sidearms

Astra Model 44

Small Arms And Sidearms

Beaumont-Adams revolver

Small Arms And Sidearms
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British Bull Dog revolver

Small Arms And Sidearms

Colt 1851 Navy Revolver

Small Arms And Sidearms
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Colt Army Model 1860

Small Arms And Sidearms
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Colt Model 1855 Sidehammer Pocket Revolver

Small Arms And Sidearms
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Colt New Service

Small Arms And Sidearms
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Colt Police Positive

Small Arms And Sidearms

Colt Python

Small Arms And Sidearms

Colt Single Action Army

Small Arms And Sidearms
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DEFA cannon

Small Arms And Sidearms

Enfield revolver

Small Arms And Sidearms
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Gasser M1870

Small Arms And Sidearms
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Korth Combat

Small Arms And Sidearms

Landstad revolver

Small Arms And Sidearms

M1879 Reichsrevolver

Small Arms And Sidearms
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M1917 revolver

Small Arms And Sidearms
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Manurhin MR 73

Small Arms And Sidearms

MAS 1873 revolver

Small Arms And Sidearms
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Mateba Autorevolver

Small Arms And Sidearms

Mauser C78 (Zig-Zag)

Small Arms And Sidearms
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Modèle 1892 revolver

Small Arms And Sidearms
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Nagant M1895 Revolver

Small Arms And Sidearms
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New Nambu M60

Small Arms And Sidearms

Pfeifer Zeliska .600 Nitro Express revolver

Small Arms And Sidearms

Rast & Gasser M1898

Small Arms And Sidearms
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Remington Model 1858

Small Arms And Sidearms
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Rohm RG-14

Small Arms And Sidearms

RSh-12

Small Arms And Sidearms

Ruger Blackhawk

Small Arms And Sidearms

Ruger GP100

Small Arms And Sidearms

Ruger Old Army

Small Arms And Sidearms

Ruger Redhawk

Small Arms And Sidearms

Smith & Wesson .38/44

Small Arms And Sidearms

Smith & Wesson Centennial

Small Arms And Sidearms

Smith & Wesson Model 12

Small Arms And Sidearms

Smith & Wesson Model 15

Small Arms And Sidearms
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Smith & Wesson Model 17

Small Arms And Sidearms

Smith & Wesson Model 28

Small Arms And Sidearms

Smith & Wesson Model 29

Small Arms And Sidearms

Smith & Wesson Model 3

Small Arms And Sidearms
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Smith & Wesson Model 340PD

Small Arms And Sidearms

Smith & Wesson Model 36

Small Arms And Sidearms

Smith & Wesson Model 460

Small Arms And Sidearms

Smith & Wesson Model 500

Small Arms And Sidearms

Smith & Wesson Model 586

Small Arms And Sidearms

Smith & Wesson Model 625

Small Arms And Sidearms

Taurus Model 85

Small Arms And Sidearms

Taurus Raging Bull

Small Arms And Sidearms

Webley Longspur

Small Arms And Sidearms
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Webley Revolver

Small Arms And Sidearms
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Webley-Fosbery Automatic Revolver

Small Arms And Sidearms
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Sources
1. Wikipedia: Revolver
WikipediaRevolver, History section
Quote, Revolver, History section
In 1836, American Samuel Colt patented a popular revolver which led to widespread use
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