True, and half the barrels misfired. Firearms have come a long way since then. I laugh when I hear apologists argue about whether JS just wounded some guys, or whether they died. In those days, even getting winged by a pistol ball could easily have been a death sentence. No antibiotics.
Yes, and no. The pepperbox did not function like a colt, but it was a response by its makers to the Colt. Shortly after the Colt revolver came out, single shot pistol sales died. Problem was, Colt had the patent on revolvers, and they were not sharing. So the pepperbox's creators simply put a bunch of barrels together on a rotating design, then sold that as their response to the Colt revolver. It was heavy, clumsy, and really only for people too cheap to buy a revolver.
"Ask a Mormon" ~ We're looking for the last few people on earth who don't use internet and could possibly be brainwashed like we used to do it old school.
"Magnify your calling" = perform free labor, even if you don't want to or if it takes too much time away from family; and you'd better say "thank you" while you're at it
TEmple *endowment* endowment typically means being given something. MORmON temple initiates are given nothing of practical value and the church use the ruse as an excuse to set up their members to steal from them.