This is the fastest musket in history #shorts

[ntfoperative]

The only reason armys weren't equiped with repeating weapons is because they were crazy expensive

[willfakaroni]

"Hey is your right arm bigge..."
"IT WAS A KALTHOFF"

[dkakito]

For people who are gonna ask why this didnt become the norm. Its easy, they were expensive to produce and expensive to maintain. Always remember one simple rule, the more moving parts, the more of a pain it is to build and repair...

[ColonelSanders]

I'm a gunsmithing student and i can say that there is a lot of firearms that the general population doesn't know about. People assune that there were only slowly loading muskets and we somehow just jumped to using metallic cartridges.

[SkyNinja]

"We have a lever action at home."

**The lever action at home**

[zarnaku]

Fun fact during the Revolutionary War George Washington was attempting to equip troops with these repeaters but they were just too expensive

[BANFromNoWhere]

"The founding fathers could have never predicted automatic rifles"

The puckle gun. 1717
Harmonica gun. 1750
Cookson gun. 1690
Chalembrom magazine repeating rifle. 1780
John Shaw's volitional repeaters. Advertised in the Boston Gazette in the 1750's.

They had plenty of concept.

[HeartTheBacon]

not to mention that lewis and clark had an italian air rifle that had like a 20 shot capacity .

[TekuTaurus]

"powder stored in the butt of the musket"
I'm not surprised the rifle with a bomb stock didn't catch on

[oolooo]

Bro, back then, people had privately owned Battleships .

[TheLordNovo]

“The founders could never predict modern weaponry”
*Laughs in Puckle gun*

[PaintballShyguy]

They can't seriously think the founding fathers were that short-sighted.

[danjudex]

Remember: These were the same people who when asked; said that it was totally legal to not only own a cannon, but a fully functional state of the art warship.

[My_name_is_I.P._Freely]

"I own a musket for home defense"

[joshuaabramson]

I own a musket for home defense because that's what the founding fathers intended

[DJScootagroov]

So fun fact. Muzzle loaders were not the pinnacle of firearms technology at that time. They were just the only thing anyone could afford.

[yearlong]

I like to think that at least one of the founding fathers went “If one musket is slow why not tape multiple together?”

[PlazmaticBrony]

"No full auto in buildings!"
"That's not full auto."
"That's not full auto?"
"Nah, this is:"

[robertb]

"The founding fathers didn't mean automatic rifles."

Meanwhile. On the deck of his private battleship;

[clydemarshall]

The Founding Fathers could EASILY have predicted that firearms would eventually reach this point. They might not have imagined the specific form they took, but repeating arms have existed for a really long time.