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English: Top: A Jennings patent version of Walter Hunt's Volition Rifle, which fired the Hunt Rocket Ball cartridge. Note percussion cap hammer, as the Rocket Ball was externally primed. Bottom: A Volcanic Repeating Arms Company lever action rifle, firing the improved, internally primed Volcanic cartridge. The Henry Rifle uses the same design, adapted to rimfire ammunition.
Source Images take from Firearms in American History By Charles Winthrop Sawyer Published by The author, 1920, Page 64
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