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Thursday, October 20, 2022

Earliest Detachable Magazine Firearm?

The Mauser C96 was a fixed magazine.  Savage patented the detachable magazine for the model 99 in 1899.  Browning pistols such as the M1900 used detachable magazines.  Does anyone know of any earlier detachable magazine firearms?  If you have a source, let me know.   This is for an upcoming challenge to Colorado's LCM ban.
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5 comments:

  1. nevadacarryOctober 21, 2022 at 8:49 AM

    The easiest examples are the Remington-Lee Model 1879, 1885 Remington-Lee and the Lee-Metford. 1888, 10 round detachable box magazine.

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  2. John HardinOctober 21, 2022 at 12:56 PM

    Model 1871 Gatling Gun?

    https://www.forgottenweapons.com/gatling-gun-feeding-mechanisms/

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  3. takirksOctober 21, 2022 at 4:35 PM

    Lee-Metford of 1888.

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  4. Tom LockerOctober 22, 2022 at 9:08 AM

    Didn't the Civil War era Gatling gun use a detachable magazine?

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  5. JeffOctober 22, 2022 at 10:22 AM

    James Paris Lee invented the detachable box magazine in the mid-1870s. In December of 1888, the Magazine Lee-Metford Rifle, Mark I, was officially accepted into British service. It used a .303 round loaded with 71½ grains of blackpowder compressed into a pellet. I do not know if that was the first one.

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