Individual Rifles: Then and Now

[Grampaw Willie, SASS No.26996]

1776 Revolutionary War against the Oppression of the British Crown:  rifled flintlock;

1865 Confederacy seeks separation from The Union: Springfield and Enfield percussion rifles;

1918 "The Great War" Enfield and Springfield bolt action rifles;

1927 The Mafia: Thompson sub machine gun;

1934 firearms control act;

1945 "The Second War" M1 Garand semi-automatic;

1975 Vietnam: M16 Select Fire automatic;

It appears another SCOTUS decision is likely.

[Charlie T Waite]

You forgot The Puckle gun (also known as the Defence gun) crew-served, manually-operated flintlock revolver patented in 1718 by James Puckle (1667–1724) a British inventor, lawyer and writer. By the way when they say our forefather never imagined the type of firearms we have today you can tell them "It was one of the earliest firearms to be referred to as a "machine gun", being called such in a 1722 shipping manifest.  There was also the 1670 22-bore French Flintlock Revolving Rifle with 3 revolving chambers, each fitted with its own striker and spring.

 

  There are others as well but this was the first ones to come to mind.

 

Charlie

[Dantankerous]

If only we could go back in time to the Alamo with a squad automatic weapon or three.

 

Hell yeah!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Tell Sackett SASS 18436]

Actually Dan, there's a book with just that premise. Unfortunatley I don't remember the title or author. Too long ago.