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Louis-Nicolas Flobert (1819–1894)

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Most people who shoot .22 LR have no idea they're firing a direct descendent of a cartridge designed for rich Parisians to shoot targets in their living rooms. That's where this starts. His contribution was not a flashier gun or a more powerful propellant. It was a packaging problem solved: how do you combine a primer, a propellant, and a projectile into one reliable, weatherproof unit that a breech-loading action can feed, chamber, and fire without the shooter touching loose powder or a sep...

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Louis-Nicolas Flobert (1819–1894)

Louis-Nicolas Flobert (1819–1894) was a French gunsmith and inventor who, in 1845, created the first metallic rimfire cartridge. That single act sits at the hinge point between two eras of firearms technology — the loose-powder, muzzle-loading world

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