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    What is this gun?

    "FL" may be Friedrich Langenhan, a pre-WW2 manufacturer of target guns and zimmerstutzen; the action certainly looks very similar to this Langenhan: https://www.rockislandauction.com/detail/72/440/engraved-fr-langenhan-single-shot-falling-block-target-rifle
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    Name that 30-06 brass.

    That is likely just an artifact of the manufacturing process, while the case is spun to machine the head, groove and rim; these are Russian Barnaul cases, and the little bullet-shaped logo is made of the Russian Cyrillic letters "BPZ", standing for "Barnaul Patrony Zavod"/"Barnaul Cartridge...
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    What Is It?

    It looks a lot like an ODI "Viking" DA conversion that has been chopped to Officer's size; the weird dual-trigger arrangement is the same, at least. This is what a Commander-size looks like: http://www.gunauction.com/buy/8530587
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    Pocket Pistol

    This velo-dog shows Spanish proofs dating from after WW1, and the "AG" over the crescent shows the maker as Francisco Arizmendi y Goenaga, who went out of business during the Spanish Civil War. The frame is marked as being for the 6mm (5.75mm) Velo-Dog cartridge, but does it have a 6mm barrel on it?
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    ¿Pump-action raygun pistol?

    Very neat; it would be interesting to see how the magazine works, as well.
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    Webley Alecto discontinued??

    The Alecto is a rebranded Zoraki HP-01, so they should still be available, just under a different name.
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    Air Rifle Silhouette shooting / Plinking

    You should try one of the Gamo "field targets"; these come with kill-zone reducers (so you can make the knock-over paddle as small as you want), and you just pull a string to set them back up again. I've got a few screwed to rubber "patio stones", so I just need to drop them in place, clip some...
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    Help with Revolver Identification

    The bottom three characters are sort of hard to make out, but they resemble the kana for "6 Type Revolver", or what we would call a "Type 6".
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    Nagant revolver fans?

    Hi, all. I'm looking for information on 1895 Nagant revolvers manufactured by the Leningrad Optical-Mechanical Factory, Factory #349. My sources say that the GOMZ produced these revolvers in 1942 and 1943, and I'd be interested in knowing if any of them were sold as surplus over here. These...
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    European .320CF revolver

    There should definitely be an "ELG" proof on the rear of the cylinder, and whether or not it has a crown on top of it will give you an idea of when it was made; no crown on the "ELG" oval shows it was made before 1893, while post-1893 examples will have a crown.
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    Unknown Cartridge Help!

    Given that this case has been somewhat beat up, is it possible that some of these measurements are off at least some? The thing that comes closest in my books is the 7.7x58 Arisaka, and most WW2 Japanese ammo didn't have headstamps. Maybe someone who brought home a Type 99 and a few rounds?
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    Beer/Soda Can Mortars?

    I once saw an interesting program that showed a mortar like this that ran off of gasoline; the user would tip a teaspoon of gas into the tube, slide a beer can down after it, and he had a spark-plug fitting welded into the bottom of the tube, hooked to a car battery, so all he had to do was...
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    Why did Glock change the pistols from a single pin to a double pin?

    This is speaking of the two locking-block pins through the frame and locking-block, not of the firing-pin; these anchor the locking-block to the frame.
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    Lepage Frères

    LePage Freres was based in Paris, but they actually had most of their guns built for them in Belgium; littlegun has a near-duplicate of your revolver at http://www.littlegun.be/arme%20belge/artisans%20identifies%20l/a%20lepage%20freres%20gb.htm
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    Lepage Frères

    Have you got a close-up of the proof marks, or of any address on the revolver? This basic style of break-open was patented in 1871, but stayed in production for a long time after that.
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    Lepage Frères

    It looks to be of the type called a "Montenegrin revolver", called that because the king of Montenegro ordered all of his subjects to own one (purely by coincidence, the king also owned part of one of the factories that made most of these). These were made from the First World War through the 1930s.
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    3 swivel barrel muzzle loader rifle

    Similar rifles in the latest Flaydermans show for anywhere between $1000 and $7000, depending on the specific features, and that can go up depending on provenance, but that sort of valuation is going to take a hands-on appraisal by a professional.
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    3 swivel barrel muzzle loader rifle

    Some more pics.
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    3 swivel barrel muzzle loader rifle

    Some photos from the OP and some more information; I've found out that Elijah K. Purdy was a gunsmith in Schoolcraft, Michigan from 1868 to 1871, and that he also patented a "floor clamp" for squeezing floorboards down onto the joists before nailing, to eliminate squeaky floors. Anyone else with...
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    Walther's patent 12 guage semi-auto shotgun

    Does it look like this: http://www.dorotheum.com/auktionen/auktionstermine/aktuelle-auktionen/kataloge/list-lots-detail/filiale/palais-dorotheum/lotID/115/lot/1833948-selbstladeflinte-deutsche-werke-ag-oder-ortgies.html?offset=21 ? If so, It's Walther's "knee-link"shotgun, so-called because it...
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