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The .46 Caliber Semi-Automatic Rifle That Changed the World
The American Thinker ^
| Jan 27, 2013
| Michael Geer
Posted on 01/27/2013 1:35:54 PM PST by EXCH54FE
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posted on
01/27/2013 1:36:02 PM PST
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EXCH54FE
To: EXCH54FE
There’s a lesson here for Congress, especially the Left and most certainly the current Administration. Take away our guns and we will invent things more lethal, more usable, and more readily at hand than mere gunpowder weapons. Force our hand and you will ignite the illimitable reservoirs of creativity we possess in reserve. Bring your heavy boots to bear on our Unalienable Rights to keep and bear arms and we will prevail simply by virtue of need overcoming tyranny.
MOLON LABE
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posted on
01/27/2013 1:37:28 PM PST
by
EXCH54FE
(Hurricane 416)
To: EXCH54FE
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posted on
01/27/2013 1:42:04 PM PST
by
bmwcyle
(People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
To: EXCH54FE
I own guns that old but never heard of that one
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posted on
01/27/2013 1:45:20 PM PST
by
wardaddy
(wanna know how my kin felt during Reconstruction in Mississippi, you fixin to find out firsthand)
To: EXCH54FE
Interesting article except for the author's error here:
"Like when single shot cap and ball ran headlong into a repeating rifle that used air."That should read "...when single shot flintlock..."
The percussion cap was invented in the early 19th Century; there were no caplock rifles in the 1700s and Lewis and Clark carried flintlocks too.
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posted on
01/27/2013 1:46:33 PM PST
by
Inyo-Mono
(My greatest fear is that when I'm gone my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them)
To: EXCH54FE
Take a high end paintball gun and replace the paintball pellets with ball bearings and you have a pretty wicked close range weapon, wherein after the battle you can recover most of your rounds.
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posted on
01/27/2013 1:49:42 PM PST
by
Boiler Plate
("Why be difficult, when with just a little more work, you can be impossible" Mom)
To: EXCH54FE
I think there is one of these in the Henry Ford Museum. (Not sure, as it was over 45 years ago since I was there.)
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posted on
01/27/2013 1:50:20 PM PST
by
Slump Tester
(What if I'm pregnant Teddy? Errr-ahh -Calm down Mary Jo, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it)
To: EXCH54FE
Another lesson was that Lewis and Clark were able to secure peaceful passage by demonstrating superior firepower.
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posted on
01/27/2013 1:51:52 PM PST
by
Blood of Tyrants
(There is no requirement to show need in order to exercise your rights.)
To: Boiler Plate
and if a paint gun is not handy, the battery powered nailer machine can do a job at close range at the bad guy’s face.
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posted on
01/27/2013 1:57:08 PM PST
by
entropy12
(The republic is doomed when people figure out they can get free stuff by voting democrats)
To: EXCH54FE; CrazyIvan
Forcing the Germans to keep any weapons they invented below 90 mm in diameter after WWI sure worked out well.
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posted on
01/27/2013 2:00:08 PM PST
by
Hardastarboard
(The Liberal ruling class hates me. The feeling is mutual.)
To: Hardastarboard
Wish I had a copy of the Bill Maulden cartoon with Willy and Joe outside the Interrogation tent. “OK, I'll tell ya’ if we find the one that invented the 88”
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posted on
01/27/2013 2:06:24 PM PST
by
CrazyIvan
(Obama's birth certificate was found stapled to Soros's receipt.)
To: Inyo-Mono
You are correct. The percussion cap was developed in 1805. The Lewis and Clark expedition started in 1804.
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posted on
01/27/2013 2:12:49 PM PST
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: EXCH54FE
Index fingers used appropriately, will kill a person. Outlaw index fingers. Free surgery for their removal.
Also, if surgery removed both thumbs, dangerous weapons couldn't be picked up and used very well. Free surgery for thumbs removed.
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posted on
01/27/2013 2:16:50 PM PST
by
Marcella
(Prepping can save your life today. Going Galt is freedom.)
To: Jack Hydrazine
The Girondani rifle was expensive beyond what any militia member could have afforded and technically very tricky for its time and could not have been maintained by people living outside of urban areas. Given that, it was a more potent weapon than anything prior to the Henry rifles.
To: EXCH54FE
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posted on
01/27/2013 2:18:48 PM PST
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: EXCH54FE
You can buy a fully automatic air machine gun off the shelf today. 9mm bullets and I think .45.
To: Jack Hydrazine
And don’t forget all the anti-2nd gun grabbers who argue that our founders couldn’t have conceived of rapid fire weapons at that time. I once read that Jefferson was well aware of this weapon.
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posted on
01/27/2013 2:20:26 PM PST
by
Inyo-Mono
(My greatest fear is that when I'm gone my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them)
To: Inyo-Mono; EXCH54FE
The percussion cap was invented in the early 19th Century; there were no caplock rifles in the 1700s and Lewis and Clark carried flintlocks too.
The invention that made the percussion cap possible using the recently discovered fulminates was patented by the Rev. Alexander John Forsyth of Belhelvie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland in 1807.
wiki The Vicker was a fowler.
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posted on
01/27/2013 2:22:06 PM PST
by
Uri’el-2012
(Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your teaching is my delight.)
To: ModelBreaker
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posted on
01/27/2013 2:22:28 PM PST
by
Inyo-Mono
(My greatest fear is that when I'm gone my wife will sell my guns for what I told her I paid for them)
To: varmintman
Seems I remember reading that the Brits would
execute any Americans caught with this weapon
Thought it was an unsportsman weapon I guess
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posted on
01/27/2013 2:27:46 PM PST
by
Harold Shea
(RVN `70 - `71)
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