Guns Inc.

Revolvers received their name from the rotating cylinder that holds the cartridges. The cylinder can hold up 5-7 bullets. However, there are some revolvers (usually the .22 caliber) that can hold from 8 to 10.

Loads in the cylinder may be reloaded in 2 ways (depending on revolver design) - one by one, as, for example, the Colt PeaceKeeper does (and almost all old-timers), or all simulateounosly - when the cylinder is switched to the side or when the is frame “broke open.” Both revolvers and semi-autos have two main “action styles”: Single action and Double action.

Derringers – a small hand pistol – was invented and popularized by a man known as ‘Deringer’. The first Derringer handgun was a single barrel, percussion .41 caliber pistol that was easy to conceal. This was the type of gun that was used by John Wilkes Booth to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln.

Derringers are usually one to four barrels only because they are so small. Probably the most famous type of derringer is the Remington over/under design that was widely copied, and is still common today. This was, and is, a single action pistol with short superposed barrels (which are hinged at the top, rather than at the bottom), a bird’s head grip, and no trigger guard, and it is what most people think of when they hear the word “derringer.”