Original U.S. Evans 1877 New Model .44 Caliber Repeating Carbine - 28 Round Magazine Original Machine Guns On 7 August 1942

On 7 August 1942

Charlton Heston

• Helmet Shell Size 68 (liner size 60-62

fought in the Netherlands and Germany in the Second World War

Original U.S. Evans 1877 New Model .44 Caliber Repeating Carbine - 28 Round Magazine Original Machine Guns On 7 August 1942Original Item: One Only. Invented by Warren R. Evans of Thomaston, Maine production started in 1873 by "Evans Rifle Manufacturing Company of Mechanic Falls, Maine." Only 15,000 Evans firearms were manufactured in a six year period and then the company declared bankruptcy in 1879, a victim of the Post Civil War arms industry glut and stiff competition. The amazing thing about the Evans system was the THIRTY FOUR round tubular magazine housed in the