hroughout firearms history, designers have tried to combine one or more types of firearm to produce a multipurpose gun. One of the most ingenious combination designs was patented in the US in October 1856 when a French émigré named Jean Alexandre LeMat combined a revolver with a sawn-off shotgun. LeMat had originally trained for the priesthood but decided medicine was his true métier and he became a physician. He emigrated to the US
