Ultra Grade Airsoft Pistol Manufactured by UHC. Quality Heavy Weight Construction - Metal Parts and Antishock ABS. Extremely Realistic in Appearance and Feel. Revolver-type weapons are part of the long development of making better multi-shot weapons. They were partly an attempt to improve on pepper-box type weapons, which used a revolving cylinder with one set of firing mechanisms, but which had multiple barrels as well. Firing through a single barrel saved the expense and weight of having the multiple barrels of the Pepper-box. Snaphaunce revolvers with the most important features of the typesingle fixed barrel, automatic cylinder rotation, and positive cylinder alignmentwere made in the late 17th century. The earliest known specimen, now in the Tower of London armories, is dated about 1680 and attributed to John Dafte of London. Elisha Collier patented a flintlock revolver in Britain in 1818, and significant numbers were being produced in London by 1822. In 1835, Samuel Colt patented a type of revolver t