The Rohrbaugh Forum
Miscellaneous => Other Guns => Topic started by: Reinz on May 25, 2012, 08:44:55 PM
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Here is an old H&R - Harrington and Richardson, breaktop pocket pistol in 32 S&W .
If you look at the trigger, you will see that it has a trigger safety.
This gun was made in the late 1800's, as I was told. I have not researched it myself. The latest may be early 1900.
Years ago a great Weaponsmith (the top of the foodchain among gunsmiths) told me, "when it comes to guns, there is rarely anything new. It has already been done or tried; and usually by the Germans".
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Years ago a great Weaponsmith (the top of the foodchain among gunsmiths) told me, "when it comes to guns, there is rarely anything new. It has already been done or tried; and usually by the Germans".
That certainly rings true.
I believe it was in 1974 that I happened to meet Dr. Wernher von Braun at a reception in Alexandria, Virginia, hosted by one of my corporate clients. Von Braun, as I recall, had retired from NASA around 1972 and was working at the time for Fairchild Industries in Germantown, Maryland.
It was in some ways almost a surreal experience to meet that man. I could not help reminding myself that had he and his team at Peenemünde in WWII been given a few more years to continue their development of rocketry . . . .