Caliber Revolver facts
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A man flipped off a woman while entering a freeway, and proceeded to have his middle finger shot off by her with a .357-caliber revolver.
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The 45 caliber Colt 1911 was adopted because the issued 38 caliber revolvers couldn't stop the Moro guerillas the US Army was fighting in the Philippines
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Charles Guiteau, the assassin of President James A. Garfield, chose a .442 caliber British Bulldog revolver with an ivory handle because he thought it would look good in a museum exhibit after the assassination. The revolver has since been lost and its whereabouts are unknown.
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A man flipped off a woman while entering a Utah Freeway, and proceeded to have his middle finger shot off by her with a .357-caliber revolver
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Budd Dwyer, Treasurer of Pennsylvania, after being convicted of accepting a bribe, called a news conference the day before his sentencing, where he killed himself in front of the gathered reporters with a .357 caliber revolver.
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In 1992, a judge in Florida responded to a handcuffed defendant's threat by pulling a .38-caliber revolver out of his robe, placed one bullet inside, & told the defendant to "go ahead and take your best shot."
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U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt was once shot in the chest with a .38-caliber revolver, but still managed to give an 84-minute speech to an audience in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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Theodore Roosevelt, during the campaign of 1912, was shot in the chest with a .38 caliber revolver from 7 feet away before he gave a speech before 10k people. He gave the speech anyway with the bullet in his chest and bleeding through his shirt, then went to the hospital afterward. Badass!
