Seems like you could email the NRA about this. Perhaps they have an index of issues and could tell you which ones include material that would fit your criteria.
Google “Joseph Gilcher gunmaker “ and it will bring up quite a few hits on him.
You might also check the NRA’s ARMS AND THE MAN series of magazines.
Contact Jim Supica, the director of their firearms museum.
He’s a great guy.
My great-great grandfather worked on the river as a
lights keeper, maintaining and fueling the shore lights.
He carried a Smith & Wesson revolver from the early
1900’s. - It still fires smooth and is light.
That river attracted a lot of yahoos who would just as
soon shoot someone, rob them and leave them to rot on
the river bank.
I don’t want to shoot nobody; but if these damned Jihadists
leave their numerous training camps and come out here
crawling through the woods in their Jihadist outfits;
if Dub don’t get ‘em; me and Fang WILL get ‘em.