Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 188, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1918 — Improves Revolver. [ARTICLE]

Improves Revolver.

By providing the ordinary revolver with a circular cartridge frame or clip, Joseph H. Wesson of Springfield, Mass., has given the older weapon all the convenient features of the newer automatic weapon; that is, the rapidity of fire and quick reload. His clip, holding five or six catridges in position, serves to push them into place in the revolver barrel at one operation, instead of individual loading, as is usually the case. > .