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A French gunmaker by the name of LeFaucheux is usually given credit for this in the year 1851. His gun, though, was for a pinfire cartridge and not the centerfire cartridge we know today. A year or two later Charles Lancaster, a British gunmaker, had a centerfire breach-loader on the market.

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