Originally posted by SquallX
Brown Bess-3 to 4 rpm
Canons
Swivel Guns
Mortar
The Pukle Gun- only two created, was never used
Girandori Air Rifle-20 mag
Belton flintlock- just a prototypeThese weapons were being design, or were already created before the Admenments, or a few years after.
It’s asisine to think, the founding fathers were so stupid, that they couldn’t even for one second fathom the level of ingenuity of man to create better weapons.
Remember how the British fought? It was all mass formations on open field. But the founding fathers and their surbodinates had the clear mind to say. Hmm, the British outnumbered us, let’s not meet them in open field, but instead use guerilla warfare.
Not a one of those is considered full auto, and most arn't even able to fall within the semi-auto category... Especially in the modern definitions of those terms.