cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/9916630

This Sharps rifle bears no maker’s mark; it was made especially for John Brown. Brown carried this weapon on his Kansas campaign in 1856 and later presented it to Charles Blair of Collinsville, Connecticut. In 1857, Brown contracted Blair to forge pikes for the clandestine slave insurrection he was planning for Harpers Ferry.

  • @[email protected]English
    7•4 days ago

    I feel like “Lincoln’s Repeater” in Fallout 3 should have been this gun instead. I mean, I get what they were going for, but this is way cooler.

  • The QuuuuuillEnglish
    3•4 days ago

    if only they’d remembered to bring the ammo their benefactors bought them