Posted on 10/26/2014 3:36:32 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
Assault with a lever action rifle! Thus, an assault rifle!
You can go back further to the Henry repeating rifle used in the Civil War. Or even further to the Giradoni Air Rifle used in the Napoleanic Wars, and carried by Lewis and Clark.
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