#HenryDeringer
Firearms Food for Thought: Derringers and Self-Defense
It’s been nearly two hundred years since Henry Deringer first sold his palm pistols, and almost as long since the proper spelling of the gun’s name has been lost. Of course, it may not have been lost, per se. When he created the Philadelphia Deringer he failed to get his methods properly patented, and no one hesitated to make their own versions of his gun. Those knock-offs were called derringers, with that extra “r” thrown in.
