The Wesson name became an indelible part of firearm history when Horace Smith and Daniel B. Wesson established Smith & Wesson back in 1852. His great grandson, Dan Wesson II, worked at that company from 1938 to 1963. Then his family sold their interest in the firm to Bangor Punta in 1965, but his love for firearm design didn’t retire.
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