No, Leftard, the Musket Wasn’t the Height of Firearm Technology at the Signing of the Constitution – IOTW Report

No, Leftard, the Musket Wasn’t the Height of Firearm Technology at the Signing of the Constitution

Friday, 6 October 2017, 1:33 BFH Uncategorized 34

Keep in mind that the musket fired a .70 caliber ball, and would take your head clean off. Ships had cannons that fired grape shot and could take out rows of men with one volley. But this is not going to impress the pointy-headed progressive that knows nothing. This will-

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Girandoni Air Rifle –  (1779) 22 round magazine, .46 caliber, an air reservoir sufficient for 30 shots, reloaded via horse- or human-powered pump. The first shot was slightly more powerful than the average musket, with muzzle energy decreasing exponentially with each subsequent shot. No smoke to obscure line of sight, either.

The Belton Flintlock – (1777) Could fire 20 rounds in 5 seconds. There are no known surviving examples but it was believed to function similar to a roman candle. Congress wanted a slower rate of fire but balked when they learned how much it would cost.

Cookson Repeater Rifle (1750) was used and produced in the United States, from 1750 until the mid 19th century, valued for its rapid rate of fire:

Wiki – The Cookson rifle… features a two-chamber horizontally-mounted rotating drum. Loading was accomplished by lowering a lever which was mounted on the left side of the rifle. This caused the chambers to line up with two magazines contained within the buttstock and allowed one .55 caliber lead ball and a 60-grain powder charge to fall into their respective chambers. When the lever was returned to its original position, the ball dropped into the chamber, and the powder charge lined up behind it. At the same time, the hammer was cocked, the pan was primed, and the frizzen was lowered. After firing the rifle, the process could be repeated…

Can out gun experts weigh in with more?

 

34 Comments on No, Leftard, the Musket Wasn’t the Height of Firearm Technology at the Signing of the Constitution

  3. I miss my Dad’s Model ’97 Winchester pump. You could hold down the trigger and slide fire every round in the tube. I’d even take the trench warfare model Winchester made for the military. That’s old time “bump fire” for yah.

  5. (Pssst. Hey, there’s someone who just posted a note in the Bull Pen, telling us all (IOTWReport)to “get a life” and to stop posting fake news. Sorry to comment on it here, but I didn’t want to comment to the poster there. If Loco, BB and a few others are still up, why don’t you see what you can do about it.)

  9. Black powder guns were used during the time of Knights in Shining Armor. That was the technology that ended their era.

    Goofy libs need history more than ever.

  11. There were several “multiple fire” weapons in the mid to late 1700’s. I’m quite certain that our founding fathers (who were likely the most “up to date” and most informed people of their time in America) were certainly aware of the weaponry available at that time seeing as how they were fighting a literal war against a formidable enemy and were actively searching for weapons that would help them win the war.

    It truly takes a genuine, historically illiterate (or completely dishonest) idiot to claim that they had no concept of any weapons more advanced than a flintlock musket when our Constitution was written. And that doesn’t even consider the general concept of allowing American citizens access to the same arms as “government troops” because at that time, the “troops” consisted only of individual American citizens that desired to defend their God-given rights (against tyrants of any stripe) as guaranteed by our very own Constitution which was approved by our founding fathers.

  19. Rat Fink – read up on Lewis & Clark expedition and you’ll find that that air gun is why the indians they met never challenged them. They would give an exhibition of that rifle and the indians had to go rinse the s**t off their legs afterwards.

  21. The framers of the constitution intended that the citizens would have weaponry just as good as the military in the event that a tyrannical government needed to be overthrown. Unfortunately our government doesn’t allow it and even if they did the costs would be prohibitive. I don’t care what anybody says, I think I should be able to own an M2, an M60 or an M249 SAW.

  23. Lewis and Clark carried a Girandoni on their expedition. It was demonstrated to the Indians to help keep them respectful of, if not friendly to, the expedition.

  29. @ Reboot: The great original Model 37 Ithaca shotguns would fire every time the breech locked if you held the trigger “down” and they didn’t “bust your thumb” or pinch the web of your firing hand when cycled. Try one – you’ll like it. Light and very smooth action. When I was a kid, I could cycle my M37 faster than my friends with A5s (which I would love to have had) and other semi autos. I see quite a few of them on the used racks these days. And barrels are easily shortened with a hacksaw, an iron square, a fine file and some emery paper to chamfer the muzzle edges. However, be sure to keep within the FFA and ATF rules on barrel length. Minimum length is 18″ from the face of the breech.

    “Don’t be David Koresch”…

  33. And besides you blithering leftist imbeciles, the 2nd amendment states “the right to bear arms”…..period! That’s a cutlass, brass knuckles, a 105mm howitzer or a Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine.

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