Fabulous Firearm Fables:

 Do you, like me find it fascinating that bullets for  a .38" Special measure .357 inch - while the bullets for the smaller caliber .36" revolver measure .38" diameter?

The old .31" black powder Caliber similarly uses larger bullets than the .32" caliber arms .. and naturally the 44 MAGNUM bullets measure only .429 inches

Well everyone knows that the answer to this, and the other Big Question, of the meaning of life - is 42 

The in)famous 'Thompson-LaGarde Tests' in 1904 to select the best caliber handgun for the U S Army by shooting cattle beasts in a meatworks - are on record for admiring the effectiveness of the "large" British Eley .476 Enfield cartridge - this is most interesting considering that this round actually uses bullets that measured the standard .455 inch. (The brass case was .476" diameter).

I do become a little impatient whenever I read how Sam Colt (1814-1862) invented the revolver - when the earliest known revolver is an 8 shot in a Norwegian museum - the 'Stopler Revolver' made in 1597.

I do make rude scoffing noises when I hear about Sam Colt's PEACEMAKER Single Action M1873 - The Gun That Won The West - the one that makes all people equal ... because this fine sixgun was designed  TEN YEARS AFTER COLT'S DEATH by gunsmith inventor William Mason who adapted a Remington top-strap design to meet the U S army requirements. 

-  Little known Mr Mason also patented the S&W swing-out cylinder and star ejector mechanism.

The most seriously deluded claim is that "Guns Kill People" .. truly awful in it's consequences because this lie excuses politicians from taking effective action against the murderers who kill in hatred - and the causes of violence like poor social conditions that result in mental illness and high levels of crime.

Every firearm is an inert tool much as is a vegetable peeler or a golf club.

However - 'Religion Kills People' is a historic fact - and it would be far more accurate to state that 'GOVERNMENTS KILL PEOPLE.'

Still - it is we who let these politicians do whatever they feel like doing to us.

- It is us listening as they claim that HEALTHCARE is too expensive - when they underfund services & reduce corporate taxes so that their donor sponsors can get bigger profits ..

Marty K.