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Needle gun
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a firearm loaded at the breech with a cartridge carrying its own fulminate, which is exploded by driving a slender needle, or pin, into it.

See also: Needle



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Still to come are a Maxim Gun, Dreyse Zundnadlegewehr and Ferguson rifle.
Paul's energy was directed toward developing a cartridge rifle loosely based on the bolt-action principle of the Dreyse needle gun which, at the time, was the standard arm of the German states.
 
 
 
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