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Inventor, designer
Casimir Lefaucheux was a French gunsmith. Lefaucheux he completed a drop-barrel sporting gun with paper-cased cartridges. Lefaucheux is credited with the invention of one of the first efficient self-contained cartridge system featuring a pin-fire mechanism. The Lefaucheux cartridge had a conical bullet, a cardboard powder tube, and a copper base that incorporated a primer pellet. Lefaucheux thus proposed one of the first practical breech-loading weapons.
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variant spelling:
Lefaucheux, Casimir
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Curriculum vitae
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* 26.01.1802
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Bonnétable
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born
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1827
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he obtained his first patent
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1832
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he completed a drop-barrel sporting gun with paper-cased cartridges.
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1836
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he invented one of the first efficient self-contained cartridge system
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† 08.08.1852
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Paris
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died
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