HBSA journal - Vol 1 No 7

V1N07 (1982)Editorial - Discussion of growth in investment collecting of antiques affecting the collection of firearms; comment on the difficulty in collecting historic breech loading firearms in UK; discussion on differences in firearms legislation across Europe; comment harmonising legislation across Europe / A brief history of Maurice Egerton by M. T. Davenport FCA; brief biography; early firearm designs; motor racing; seven barrelled single shot .22rf rifle; development of rifling machine; double barrelled .22 automatic rifle; cup wad development / The Patents of Jacob Snider Junior by A. J. Dewis; Snider's breechloading patents 1862 - 1865 / The Vickers G.O. Gun by G.F. Wallace; brief history of Vickers G.O. Gun development; Replacement of Lewis Gun by the gun; defects in early guns and their resolution; wartime use / Metford Letters - January 1878 to February 1878 / Comments on the Metford Letters - January 1868 - January 1878