Emilio Ghisoni (1937 – 28 April 2008) was an Italian

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and

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, best known for his innovative work with

revolver A revolver is a repeating handgun with at least one barrel and a revolving cylinder containing multiple chambers (each holding a single cartridge) for firing. Because most revolver models hold six cartridges before needing to be reloaded, ...

Biography

Ghisoni was born in

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in 1937, and attended university to follow a course in

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. His father founded a company, Macchine Termo-Balistiche ( Mateba), that manufactured

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machinery and other

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equipments. The death of his father, who ran the company, caused Ghisoni to leave school in 1956 to learn the business. He later became a

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and a designer of food processing equipment. An avid firearms enthusiast, he had an interest in designing revolvers. His designs came from wanting to improve accuracy in international rapid-fire competitions. He accomplished this by aligning the barrel with the lower chamber of the cylinder instead of the top in order to lower the

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and minimize the

muzzle rise Muzzle rise, muzzle flip or muzzle climb refers to the tendency of a firearm's or airgun's Muzzle (firearms), muzzle (front end of the Gun barrel, barrel) to rise up after firing. It more specifically refers to the seemingly unpredictable "jump" ...

due to

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. In the 1970s he designed his first prototype: a revolver with a lower barrel and cylinder in front of the

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. He followed this with: * The Mateba MT1, a .22 LR

semi-automatic pistol A semi-automatic pistol (also called a self-loading pistol, autopistol, or autoloading pistol) is a repeating firearm, repeating handgun that automatically ejects and loads cartridge (firearms), cartridges in its chamber (firearms), chamber afte ...

, produced in small numbers in 1980. * Mateba MTR-8 of 1983. * Mateba 2006M. *

Mateba Autorevolver The Mateba Model 6 Unica (often known simply as the Mateba or the Mateba Autorevolver) is a recoil operated automatic revolver, semi-automatic revolver, one of only a few of this type ever produced. It was developed by Mateba (company), Mateba, b ...

. *

Chiappa Rhino } The Chiappa Rhino is a series of revolvers produced by Italian manufacturer Chiappa Firearms. The Rhino's frames are CNC-machined from a solid block of high-tensile aluminium alloy and all internal parts are CNC-machined from steel. Chambered ...

revolver. He died in 2008 at the age of 71 following a

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.http://www.armietiro.it/scomparso-emilio-ghisoni-geniale-inventore-darmi (Italian)

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