Well, Italy was one of the hardest hit countries by Covid.

And when The Donald opened the gun shops in 2020 seven million people went shopping and bought whatever they could get their hands on.

I wonder what some of those folks who chose to buy a cap and ball revolver are going to do with them when they go looking for ammo

Could be there will be a lot more of them on GunBroker...

Here is one for you, this is the first year Montana has offered a traditional black powder muzzle loader hunting season. Now you can imagine the grief for new comers to the game as they try to get "tooled" up at the local gun shop.
No local selection of import gun choices, no easily accessible powder sales, balls/mold, and percussion caps or flints all require mail order.  All that hassle is too much for newbies in general. And then the state offers the hunt in mid Dec. which generally requires some real winter clothes, more start up costs.
kw

I have one of those 1860s also with the wood buttstock.

Back in the 1960's I desperately wanted one of those Belgian-made 1860 Army revolvers distributed by Centennial Arms Corp. through Chicago's Shore Gallery.  Everyone said they were so-o-o much better than the Navy Arms versions   And folks nowadays say that holds true for the Uberti-Colt "Second Generation" guns as well.   

By the way, as I remember, all their pistols had steel backstraps and the notch for the shoulder stock; but the only ones the stock would actually fit also had the extended anchor screws in their frames and the notches cut into their recoil shields.

Bill Lawrence

Smoke,

for cap and ball revolvers; round balls or conicals over BP with a percussion cap is my basic recipe.  No shortage of either here in Idaho.