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[Darksheare]

"'The Americans had riflemen who could hit a man anywhere they liked at 200 paces... At King's Mountain, they destroyed us.'
-- British Captain
writing after the war."


Ah yes.
The infamous 'Squirrel guns' that the American colonials used in preference to the British Bess.
The Bess was good out to 75 yards, if that.
The Americans had hunting rifles good to 200.
King George said, "No fair."
He's the first one to use the term Assault Weapon.

Which is also why we have the second amendment.
King George also had moved to, if not outright ban the guns the colonials used, then to at least reduce their numbers to insignificance.
(This is highly paraphrased history. So, nitpickers, bite me.)

The colonials depended on their rifles for food, and protection. (Hostile natives, raiding Quebecers, and other such.)
To take them away guaranteed the massacre of colonists.

Yet another match at the fuse of revolution...

Good article, thanks.
More detailed and more accurate info is in the history elsewhere.

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