This video explores the Massachusetts Arms Company's Maynard-Primed Belt Revolver, a .31-caliber firearm developed to circumvent Colt patents. Facing legal challenges from Colt for their earlier Wesson & Leavitt Dragoon, the company redesigned their revolvers. Key features included a cylinder release button within the trigger guard and a Maynard tape priming system. Production was limited to about a thousand units due to perceived technical inferiority compared to Colt's offerings, but the company survived financially until Colt's patents expired in 1857.
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