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Gun Control & RKBA

yagotme

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4. And do you think that the British would have stopped

Reply to jimmy the one (Reply #3)

Wed May 17, 2017, 03:14 PM

May 2017

at only "retrieving" only British original pieces and equipment, or was the intent to completely clean out the armory of all arms and equipment, due to the nature of the rebellion? I'm sure a competent British commander wouldn't leave a grain of corn left in the supplies of the rebels.

"American gunsmiths were slow in making even one musket, sometimes taking as long as 2 weeks for one, and 200 per year was an admirable high end output."

100 gunsmiths, 1 year, 150 guns per, 15,000 guns. How long did the colonists have gunsmiths? Decades?

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