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Harmonica gun

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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. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Weapon Class
multi-chamber firearm 1
Introduced Year
1742 1
Weapon Class
Weapon Class (category)
Pistol / Revolver 1
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Harmonica gun
  • Weapon class classified from the entity's own sourced description text.
  • Article text
    The earliest example of a harmonica gun is probably the one constructed by the Swiss inventor Welten in 1742.
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Wikidata: Harmonica gun
Wikidata Q5659316, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
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