Union Automatic Revolver

Union Automatic Revolver
Type Automatic revolver
Place of origin  United States
Production history
Designed 1909
Manufacturer Union Firearms Company
Produced 1909-1912
Number built limited
Specifications
Cartridge .32 S&W
Action Recoil operated semi-automatic revolver
Rate of fire Semi-automatic
Sights Iron

The Union automatic revolver (also known as the Lefever revolver) was a .32 calibre revolver. It was designed by Charles F. Lefever (US Patent 944448, 1909) and manufactured by the Union Firearms Company of Toledo, Ohio.[1]

It was produced in limited numbers until 1912 when production ceased, marking the exit of Union Firearms Company from the handgun business.[1]

It was similar in action to the Webley Fosbery automatic revolver, but had a shroud that protected the recoiling upper half from contact with the firer's hand.[2]

Before its demise, Union Firearms also manufactured the Riefgraber automatic pistol, patented by J.J. Riefgraber,[1] on which Lefever also had "done some work".[3] Charles F. Lefever later worked for the Daisy company in Plymouth, Michigan, for which he designed the Daisy Model 25, which sold over 15 million pieces by 1957.[3]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Ian Hogg; John Walter (2004). Pistols of the World. Krause Publications. p. 357. ISBN 978-0-87349-460-1.
  2. ↑ http://fosbery.tripod.com/GVF.html
  3. 1 2 Walter Harold Black Smith (1957). Smith's standard encyclopedia of gas, air and spring guns of the world. Castle Books. p. 203.
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