Small Arms Primer 160: Dutch 1873 Revolvers

Government bureaucracies: "None of us is as dumb as all of us". Once again, I have to give you guys props for giving significant time to properly documenting these oddities. It's a deep dive that's gonna drown a lot of folks, but how much harder is it going to be to dig that all up and fit it into "the big picture" in another 50 years?

I've never thought of the creation of a compact version of an existing gun as akin to "the reduction of a stew". XD