Early matchlock guns are extremely rare ... Luger, Mauser, and Colt models. By the turn of the century, just 8 years after Laumann, automatics were firmly established.

Jesse James lived by the revolver ... deadlier models. The 1860 Army Colt shot .44 caliber bullets, which did much more damage. And by the time of Jesse's bank robberies in the early 1870s ...