[Reaganite Republican]

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[donmeaker]

If you load it with number 1 shot, you can get 25 rounds to come out with one pull of a trigger. Just the thing to clear a room.

[Terry L Smith]

That is exactly correct!

A standard-issue ‘Brown Bess’ Tower flintlock rifle, using a 3/4 inch thick piece of English brown flint, igniting a powder charge sufficient to propel a 69-caliber lead ball to a target nominally 75 yards distant. The best musket men could load and fire THREE rounds per minute.

(Three rounds a minute was also the standard for the Union troops in the Civil War.)

[imardmd1]

The term "Assault" gun was first used, IIRC, the Sturmgewehr 44 manufactured for the German Army and first issued during WWII.

[Tainan]

I’m going to counter that with rate-of-fire and nominate a Winchester Lever Action...maybe model 1873 or so as the first true “assault rifle.”

[central_va]

Except it was a smooth bore.

[jyro]

for those that didn’t know, the song “Black Betty” was written about this gun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMLnDuzgkjo

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[kevao]

All I want for Christmas is an official Red Ryder, carbine action, two-hundred shot range model assault rifle!

[ought-six]

Well, the Revolution actually started in earnest in 1775. So, the sign is off a year in its timeline. It woul dhave been historically accurate if it said: 1776 - Declaration of Independence.