Talk:Union Automatic Revolver

Latest comment: 11 years ago by 86.121.18.17 in topic France??

France??

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Charles Levefer was almost certainly one of the sons of "Uncle Dan" D. M. Levefer who died in 1906 and before that ran Lefever Arms Company and later Lefever, Sons & Co., both in Syracuse, New York (Guns & Prices 2012, p. 611). Charles was probably never a French citizen. Someone should stop this silly ethnic tagging of firearms. 86.121.18.17 (talk) 05:14, 25 June 2013 (UTC)Reply

There is even a reference in Lefever Arms Company which says D.M. had a son named Charles. 86.121.18.17 (talk) 05:49, 25 June 2013 (UTC)Reply

From [1]: "Charles F. Lefever, a member of the famous Lefever family of American shotgun manufacturers of that era, had worked for the Union Arms Company at Toledo, Ohio, where he developed a semi-automatic revolver along the general lines of the British Webley-Fosbery [...]" 86.121.18.17 (talk) 05:59, 25 June 2013 (UTC)Reply