[DrNo]

The antique revolver Susan Berkovitz allegedly used Monday to kill her cousin and wound a lawyer was purchased at a gun show, where she didn't need a permit to buy it.

Does anyone know if this was a black-powder revolver?

You can buy black-powder arms through mail order (e.g., Cabellas) without going throug an FFL!

[Bob]

Does anyone know if this was a black-powder revolver?

You can buy black-powder arms through mail order (e.g., Cabellas) without going throug an FFL!

On another thread on this subject, someone posted that the manufacturer (S&W?) had never manufactured any black-powder pistols.

[brbethke]

Smith & Wesson never made cap-and-ball revolvers. They started business making cartridge revolvers, and cartridge guns, no matter how old or what the propellant inside the cartridge, cannot be sold mail order.

The Cabela's black powder guns you refer to are all muzzle-loaders.