The Spencer repeating rifle took a magazine in the stock holding seven metallic cartridges. The trigger guard was a lever that loaded cartridges and ejected spent shells.

Christopher Miner Spencer became known as one of the greatest gun designers of his age, and his Spencer rifle was eventually fielded as one of the most advanced firearms employed during the Civil ...

“Originalists” on the Supreme Court read out of the Second Amendment the clause “A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State …” in 2008′s District of ...

Neither the Henry nor the Spencer [repeating rifles] had undergone much testing in the field, and neither company was ready for anything approaching the mass production required to arm a rapidly ...

CALEDONIA TOWNSHIP — Bruce Kraft’s interest in the Civil War sprouted after receiving his great-grandfather’s Spencer repeating rifle when he was 10 years old.

The Spencer repeating rifle, which appeared on the eve of the Civil War, enabled its user to fire over 20 rounds a minute, compared to two to three rounds of previous muzzle loaders.

War, Reconstruction, and Vengence On the afternoon of July 18, 1867, several men walked into a saloon in Stanford, Kentucky where another man was playing checkers. They were armed with Spencer ...

The Spencer was the world’s first military metallic cartridge, and over 200,000 examples were made between 1860 and 1869 by the Spencer Repeating Rifle The Spencer Carbine was another weapon ...