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I watched the whole thing (for my sins) and I agree with you, Zulch. 
That jitterbug on the vid made way too much about cap & balls not being firearms. He did try to clarify a little, but how many times did we hear “not a firearm, not a firearm”?  True, for sales, transfers and background checks.  But for every other aspect of criminal liability - they’re definitely firearms.  Felons who are not permitted to possess firearms can’t have a C&B because (wait for it) … it’s a firearm.  Can’t carry one or park it in your vehicle without a permit because it’s a firearm.  If you brandish one in a “rude, angry or threatening manner”,  it’s a firearm. If one robs the local hadji-mart using one, it gets charged as a robbery with a firearm enhancement. I’ve done that,
(not the robbery but adding the enhancement as another count in the complaint) and it’s good for another eight or ten years.  If  DeKiefrie is a previously convicted felon, that’s count three and so on.  The biggest misconception in our sport is that because, for a couple of narrow purposes, cap and ball is not a firearm - it’s not a firearm generally.  Try walking one into a courthouse.

And when I became a felon in 1993 in the great state of Idaho for... (wait for it, Nah, not screwing children, nope, no armed robbery? Heroin? Ninja please...) Driving w/o Privileges, yup sober as a judge all three times, (3!!!!!) just suspended, and on my way to work, all but the last, (in the city they say ya get pulled over for DWB, Driving While Black, here? It's DWP, Driving While Poor- which is why I maintained my suspension for so long, food before SR-22, Rent before SR-22, etc.) when I was on my way back from the drug store with medicine for my sick infant...

I was allowed per the rules of my probation to have BlackPowder firearms and a crossbow.

I haven't paid attention, rights are restored, Hell, the crime is so old it's not even digitized, it's microfiche... but.

When did the laws change?

Hey Len - I didn’t mean to sound beneficent, as if I were granting some sort of dispensation.  I’ll defend our right to call 60’s “beautiful”, any time, because they are, bye gawd and boi-howdy they are.

Hi Len.  You can call Colt 60’s “beautiful” if you want to.  I’ve been doing that since I was about nine.  My own appreciation of their aesthetic qualities rages undiminished. ........

Hello G Dog. Thanks for your permission!
What I always liked, was the kind of fluid form of the round barrel just sneaking into the underbelly of the rammer. No octagonals, no sharp corners, no steps. I guess it was all drop forged (die forged). To mill that form out in the 1860ies would have been hard, no CNC and such.

Great vids, Zulch! Although after watching them, I think I'd be looking for a different gun. JMHO. It certainly is a hefty hunk of iron!

Very early on, I think the Colt factory put out some 1860s with 7 1/2 inch barrels. Very few though, even the McCulloch Colt was 8 inches.
The repros I have are all 8 inches.  That’s standard 1860.
Get your ruler out, Zulch.

Thank you G. Got the ruler out. You are absolutely correct.