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We here at the Texas Ranger Museum would use "Pistol" for Pepperbox Pistols.
Pistols can revolve or not revolve so it is a more useful term to describe
all of these type of weapons.
Tracie Evans
Collections Manager
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Deb Arenz [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 11:54 AM
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> Subject: Pepperbox definition
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> I have a question for museums that have firearms collections and use
> Chenhall's Nomenclature to classify their firearms.
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> How do you define the object name "Pepperbox"? In reading some general
> gun
> literature, I gather that some gun experts define a pepperbox as a
> revolver
> with more than one rotating barrel that are fired separately. Others say
> that the barrels don't need to revolve, but must be grouped around a
> central
> axis.
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