Way back in 1860, a gentleman named Benjamin Tyler Henry is credited with inventing The Henry Rifle: The first repeating, lever-action rifle. The Civil War was on-going and such a firearm was a huge ...
Benjamin Tyler Henry was not the father of lever-action rifles, but his development of a .44-caliber cartridge—and the lever gun he built to shoot it—did change the platform forever. Only 14,000 of ...