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To: Reaganite Republican
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.
3 posted on
11/17/2013 12:33:04 AM PST by
donmeaker
To: Reaganite Republican
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.)
To: Reaganite Republican
The term "Assault" gun was first used, IIRC, the
Sturmgewehr 44 manufactured for the German Army and first issued during WWII.
6 posted on
11/17/2013 1:16:51 AM PST by
imardmd1
(Fiat Lux)
To: Reaganite Republican
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.”
7 posted on
11/17/2013 2:17:51 AM PST by
Tainan
(Cogito, ergo conservatus sum -- "The Taliban is inside the building")
To: Reaganite Republican
Except it was a smooth bore.
9 posted on
11/17/2013 3:15:29 AM PST by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: Reaganite Republican
13 posted on
11/17/2013 4:09:20 AM PST by
jyro
(French-like Democrats wave the white flag of surrender while we are winning)
To: Reaganite Republican; All
17 posted on
11/17/2013 4:35:56 AM PST by
musicman
(Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
To: Reaganite Republican
All I want for Christmas is an official Red Ryder, carbine action, two-hundred shot range model assault rifle!
19 posted on
11/17/2013 4:42:03 AM PST by
kevao
(Biblical Jesus: Give your money to the poor. Socialist Jesus: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
To: Reaganite Republican
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.
30 posted on
11/17/2013 6:51:33 AM PST by
ought-six
( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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