Show i TIIINW GUN OR UNCLE SAMS MARINES r 4 The LEE STRAIGHT PULL I RIFLF I 5 I I I I San Francisco Examiner The first j consignment of the new guns for the I I navy intended for tills coast arrived at I t Mare Island four days ago There I were about 200 in the Iqt and they have I i I I been distributed among the marines in i j the Mare Island barracks I The new weapon for fighting at close i I I range on the sea is called the Lee I straightpull gun I is I of 23calibre and can be loaded and fired with marvelous mar-velous celerity I takes five cartridges in its magazine and when the last of j the five shells Is exploded an extractor t throws out all the shells By this con j trivance five shots can be fired before reloading is necessary The Lee gun Is manufactured by the Winchester Arms company at Springfield Spring-field Mass I Is light and only 30 inches long The bayonet presents a fiat surface |