of handling by eountry we have pinned our faith for the present, or handle, squeeze the movable plate in the handle so gearing the heavier calibers. Simple and ingenious as as to release the catch to unlock from the gun, and the original design, Figs. 1 and 2, appears in the modi- pull the breech… … the block, grasped the head of the cartridge, as is usu- Fig. 3.-MODIFIED MECHANISM—REAR VIEW OF ally done in small arm systems. BREECH CLOSED. A great improvement over this method has been Fig. 1—ORIGINAL DESIGN—REAR VIEW, MECHANISM made by the adoption of the extractors, as shown in CLOSED. in…
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