Christian Sharps

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Christian Sharps (born New Jersey, 1811 - died 1874) designed the Sharps breech-loading rifle. Although the Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company bore his name, he was not the principal owner and left the company to form a partnership with William Hankins in 1862, known as Sharps & Hankins.

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