And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
It's a sidelever opening gun, to break the action you push down with your thumb on the oval pad at the top of the picture. The side lever lost out to the top lever action by 1900, but a fellow named Karl Hauptmann custom builds side lever guns in Germany. If I sold my house I might be able to afford one of his guns.
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ReplyDeleteIt's a sidelever opening gun, to break the action you push down with your thumb on the oval pad at the top of the picture. The side lever lost out to the top lever action by 1900, but a fellow named Karl Hauptmann custom builds side lever guns in Germany. If I sold my house I might be able to afford one of his guns.
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