![]() ![]() Most folks who carried these guns for protection only bought enough ammo to fill the cylinder. (This didn’t prevent some from producing just that sort of thing, but it invited a lawsuit.) ![]() What you couldn’t do until the 1855 patent expired in 1869 was produce a revolver with a cylinder with cylindrical chambers bored straight through it and sell that on the open market. Several companies made rimfire ammunition with no need to pay royalties to anyone other than those that developed their cartridge and packaging manufacturing machines. Rimfire ammunition was covered by an 1831 patent that had expired by the time Smith & Wesson started the manufacture of their revolvers. The Rollin White patent covers the “bored through cylinder”, not the ammunition.
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