Answers to Trivia Quiz: Great American Firearms

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1. This Confederate sidearm incorporated a 16 gauge "shotgun" barrel in addition to a 9-shot revolving cylinder.

n. LeMat revolver

2. At Saratoga during the American Revolution, rifleman Tim Murphy gently squeezed the trigger, and 300 yards away British General Simon Fraser tumbled from the saddle

m. Pennsylvania (Kentucky) rifle

3. This infamous firearm caused the demise of one of America's greatest Presidents.

l. percussion Philadelphia derringer

4. Using one of these at Adobe Walls, Texas in 1874, hunter Billy Dixon dropped a mounted Comanche warrior at a distance estimated by witnesses as "about a mile". Army surveyors later measured the distance to be 1,538 yards.

k. .50-90 Sharps buffalo rifle

5. Each of General Custer's 7th Cavalry troopers carried one of these.

j. Colt .45 Single Action Army revolver

6. Gen. George Patton called it "the greatest battle implement ever devised".

i. M1 Garand rifle

7. This was a preferred weapon of bank-robbing duo Bonnie and Clyde in the early 1930s

d. Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR)

8. During prohibition this weapon earned the nickname "Chicago Typewriter".

h. Thompson submachine gun

9 Eugene Stoner designed this weapons system which was first purchased by the U.S. Air Force.

f. M16 rifle

10. Medal of Honor winner Sgt Alvin York was issued one of these before departing for France in World War One.

g. 1917 Enfield rifle

11 This American shoulder arm was designed by ex-convict and bootlegger David M. Williams.

c. M1 Carbine

12 Only 1100 of these were originally made. At 4 1/2 pounds, this huge revolver was carried in holsters suspended from the saddle pommel instead of a hip holster.

b.Colt Walker .44

Bonus:

During the Civil War the Confederates sneeringly referred to it as "that damned Yankee rifle that they load on Sunday and shoot all week!"

e. Henry repeating rifle