Lefevers are not sidelocks at all. They are only called sidelocks by the gun-ignorant. Some of the earlier guns had the sears on the sideplates but the common Syracuse Lefever is only called a sidelock incorrectly. Sidelocks are sidelocks, sideplates are possibly correctly called "false sidelocks". There is no need to call a sideplate false or a sidelock a "true sidelock", as Larry said. Words mean things and the addition of false and/or true just adds to the confusion.

> Jim Legg <