Smith & Wesson made 5,516,685 pistols from 2016 to 2020, which is 26% of the U.S. market, according to data from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives. The company is wildly ...

when founders Horace Smith and Daniel Wesson created the Volcanic Repeating Arms Company. The Volcanic pistol was one of the first repeating firearms. The company ended up in the ownership of ...