Winchester Repeating Arms Company

compelling question. Why do Americans love guns? Oliver Winchester and Samuel Colt have answered this question by becoming two of the greatest gun manufacturers in the world. Both men have come up with innovations that have changed the world of guns forever. To many they are an icon of death or even mass genocide in many people’s eyes. However, the gun world classifies these two as heroes for their advances in technology. From the troubled life of textile manufacturers in their child life to their adult life as the greatest manufacturers in the world, Oliver Winchester and Samuel Colt lived a notorious life. Surprisingly, Samuel Colt did not live a childhood within wealth. To begin with, Samuel was the child of Christopher and Sarah Colt and was one of eight children. As soon as Samuel could, he started he started working at his father’s textile company and learned to familiarize himself with common workmen tools and equipment. Soon after, Colt began to learn how to make homemade explosives. Eventually, Colt developed explosives for the Fourth of July which he used to blow up a raft in a celebration. As well as learning…

During the mid to late 1800s, many companies - such as the Henry Repeating Arms Company and Smith and Wesson - emerged, revolutionizing the firearms industry forever. Although most are still standing and producing firearms, one rises above the rest. The Winchester Repeating Arms company but how was it formed and who created it? Oliver Fisher Winchester was born on November 30th, 1810 in Boston Massachusetts to Samuel Winchester and Hannah Bates. He worked as a carpenter, ran a men’s shirt…

Jonathan Browning did not believe in buying barrels from another company so, with the tools he made he would forged his own barrels. Jonathan Browning created his own rifling machine that he would use to rifle the barrels after they were forged. This man was literally a jack of all trades really cared about the craftsmanship of his work and the reliability of his guns. john moses browning was born in 1855 and his brother and soon to be life business partner in 1859. at a very young age of 10…

3 1 2 10363 Who Was Sarah Winchester? In the 1840?s Leonard Pardee and his wife Sarah W. Burns had a baby girl, who they named Sarah Lockwood Pardee. Sarah was born in New Haven, Connecticut, also know as ?Belle of New Haven.? she had a wonderful childhood, she got her education through the best private school in Connecticut. Sarah learned and spoke four languages and played the piano beautifully. Sarah and William In the 1860?s, Sarah met Oliver Fisher Winchster ,Lieutenant Governor of…

was considered both popular and very enthusiastic. William quickly fell in love with her and they started dating. William was going to ask her to marry him ,but unfortunately he was never able to get the chance to ask her to marry him due to the fact that another man, Cornell Franklin, asked her before he could. Estelle married Cornell Franklin because her parents told her too, he was a law graduate from the University of Mississippi and he came from a family who had a high reputation. William…

in the hands of a violent shooter. Anyone that can acquire a weapon like this can easily be a force to be reckoned with, and in history society has seen the brutal power firearms can unleash. It has been made very clear that there needs to be a way to update the 2nd Amendment for more modern times in a world where guns are very easily acquired. With the ratification of the Bill of Rights in 1791, the 2nd Amendment included explicitly calls for “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the…