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Pinfire ammo was made in some calibers up until World War II, and in some special runs, afterwards.
Your best bet for finding any would probably be Old Western Scrounger, but it will be expensive as all hell.
One of the more interesting things I've ever seen is a kit used for reloading pin fire ammunition, a packet of primers, bullets, individual baggies of powder, and the little rods, or pins, that provided the ignition source. IIRC there were 12 reloads in the box, probably from the turn of the century, and printed in French.
IIRC the guy who had it wanted almost $800 for it.
Pinfire disappeard for a number of reasons, but the most important were that centerfire was more versatile, could handle more powerful rounds, and would actually feed from a magazine relatively well.
Pinfire was an interesting off-shoot of the firearms evolutionary scale, but like the road traveled by trilobites, it was an evolutionary dead end.
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