handguns were unsuitable for use by the FBI, M1917 revolvers during World War I.īut large. The Army was concerned, and led to the adoption of the. Warriors of the Philippines drove the final nail in its coffin as far as 38's poor showing against the fanatical Muslim Moro Mediocre accuracy and lackluster on-target performance became 38s faced the test of combat, they were found With the trend in European militaries, which beginning in the 1870s, hadīegun replacing 11mm revolvers with ones firing cartridges as small asīut when the new. Revolver with modem, swing-out cylinder Colt revolvers withĭouble-action/ single-action trigger mechanisms. Army hadįollowed the Navy's lead and replaced its aging. In Part I (Issue 11) we saw how in the 1890s the U.S. military revolvers long denigrated rut still serving proudly part II: revolvers may be a 19th century design, but they are still serving in obscure corners of the U.S.
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