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From: Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com>
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Subject: [OT] Multi-shot flintlocks in the 1820s?
Date: Sat, 10 May 2025 20:36:52 -0400
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If anyone had told me an hour ago that various designs for multi-shot 
flintlocks existed anywhere in the world as early as the 1820s - and 
even earlier - I would have questioned their sanity. I'm far from being 
a gun expert but I thought the first repeating pistols only originated 
about the time of the (US) Civil War and the first repeating rifles soon 
followed. How wrong I was!

Ian McCullough (or McCullum, I can never make out exactly what he's 
saying) tells us about the Jennings 5-shot flintlock in this video and 
mentions an even earlier design that was effectively a semi-automatic 
rifle dating back a few days earlier):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shDQOi6YDo8 [10 minutes]


-- 
Rhino