the griffin gun has none of required markings and on was two, the griffin gun never delivered to the war department for service in the civil war. right, it is is not a civil war gun. unfortunately for the general, gun is quite real, pre-war prototype. the markings on the griffin gun appear not on the mussel, but trunyon, protruding sideway from the center of the tube by which it is mounted on the carriage. case of this particular griffin gun, it has been painted trunyon times that the markings are barely discernible, even in the brightest daylight. i'm happy to report that information in the book is out of date because they have and now you can't read them. the book.k with adding to mystery the gun is just as spelled, legendary mini-ball misspells the name of the french developer laude monet, griffin gun is brain child of john griffin, who an ordinance rifle, which is also referred to as the gr griffin gun, making life more difficult, there in lies the tale. prestige, president of the loop states and the ussprinceton, the first war ship navy.e u.s. there have been many uss ct 59, the

employed his technique for the construction of a field gun which became known as the griffin gun. he patented the technique on the one day the patent office was closed. 25thtmas day december 1875. all of the guns merit -- bear that patent date including the one at that gettysburg museum. only three are known to survive. this one day to mounted on a irn and one of the pennsylvania state college. that is the only one sitting on a gun carriage. at half a ton it was a awfully heavy to for delivering the shot. in terms of metallurgy this gun was a breakthrough. withuld later experiment raw iron sheets. thus he invented the ordinance rifle which was 200 pounds later than the gun and would fire a project out twice its size. therefore it never came out of the prototype stage. it is not known how this gun came to gettysburg. the property has changed and several times reopening in 2015. the current owners only note that it came with the property and they say they are keeping it there. -- i will all know keep watching to make sure that thing is still there. ?oes anyone have any questions woul

police say the argument escalated, and that is when griffin pulled out a gun and started shooting.43-year-old death -- up solder -- stepfather died, and sister is in critical condition. >>> attempted murder and assault, for attempting to run down to san landry -- san leandro officers with his car. accused of stealing alcohol from a safeway, and trying to escape in his car. two officers were near the driver side door, when gordon put the car into reverse, both officers were dragged and went to the hospital, gordon was arrested in oakland the next day. both officers are recovering from their injuries.>>> knew it 10:00, facebook has signed a new office lease in san francisco. they plan to occupy 436,000 square feet of office space at the 181 fremont building, it is still going up near the salesforce tower. facebook is headquartered in menlo park, and members of their instagram team will be working in the office space in san francisco, it will hold between 2000 and 3000 employees. >>> the oakland a's has signed a lease for office space at jack london square, it puts the front office cl

police believe griffin ran to his car... grabbed a gun and shot his step-father. his half-brother drove to a nearby liquor store .... where he called 9-1-1. he was shot in theupper body -- and is expected to survive. ( darya ) a man from novato now has his mother's ashes after they were stolen from his truck. william nave planned on fulfilling his mother's dying wish of spreading her ashes just outside the golden gate. nave was also going to scatter the ashes of his german shepard who also recently passed away. he was visiting a friend in rohnert park last week when his truck was stolen with his mother's and his dog's remains inside it. a boy ended up finding a backpack with the mother's remains inside it at a nearby <> <"his father opened up the backpack. saw the contents. realized they weren't drugs. he realized what was in there and i said "wow you are kidding me. you have my mom's ashes?" and he said, "yup, i sure do."">( darya ) nave now has his mother's ashes but his dog's are still missing. police found his truck on sunday. ( darya ) the city of san francis

police believe griffin ran to his car... grabbed a gun and shot his step-father. his half-brother drove to a nearby liquor store .... where he called 9-1-1. he was shot in theupper body -- and is expected to survive. ( james ) new this morning... police have arrested four people from the bay area for poaching abalone in mendocino and sonoma counties.. we have new pictures of the arrests this morning. two of the suspects are from the east bay. the others are from san jose. wildlife officials say the four people were selling the abalone on the black market. the suspects had been under investigation for the last five months. police say some of the four people arrested had previously been convicted for similar ( james ) happening now... fire crews in the north bay are working to fully contain a fire burning in marin county. the fire broke out yesterday afternoon and has burned around 10 acres in west marin. at last check the fire was 70% contained. fire crews hope to have it fully contained sometime today. nobody was injured and no homes have been destroyed. there is

police believe griffin ran to his car... grabbed a gun then pulled it out on his step- father... shooting him several times. the suspect's brother drove to a nearby liquor store .... where he called 9-1-1. he was shot in the torso -- and is expected to survive. (pam) happening now: police in san jose are looking for a minivan driver who hit and killed a man -- then took off.. the crash happened around 10:30- last night on ocala avenue near bermuda avenue.kron4's philippe djegal spoke to a woman who witnessed what happened. (philippe) angelica isais (ee-sigh-iss) had just arrived home after her mom picked her up from work late wednesday night... when the evening took a deadly turn directly in front of her.angelica isais/neighbor- "and, right when we were entering our house, um, we heard a sound -- it was really loud." in the middle of ocala avenue... she saw her neighbor laying on the ground... identified by the santa clara county cororner's office as 59- year-old sal mejia... with his wife, who isais says witnessed the crash, screaming at the top of her lungs. angelica isais/neig

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