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Richard Paulson, who a year before had patented a straight blowback-operated rifle and pistol, again, one year after Maxim's first blowback patent, patented a gas piston-operated rifle and pistol which he claimed could be used with sliding, rotating or falling bolts. He would also patent a gas-operated revolver in 1886. Paulson did construct models of his rifle and tried them in France shortly after filing his patent. Furthermore, according toA. W. F. Taylerson, a firearms historian, his patented revolver was probably workable. In 1887, an American

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