Gunroom

One of the most successful firearms ever designed was the Remington rolling-block rifle, which dominated the field of military arms from 1865 until the mid-1880s. It was adopted by so many nations that it is probably easier to say which countries didn’t use it.

The rolling-block design had its genesis in that hothouse of firearms development, the American Civil War (1861-65). In January 1863, engineer Leonard Geiger patented a