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Magazine Article
The American Way with Guns
2013
Overview
The rifled musket was, indeed, a game-changer in the American Revolution, even if it was not quite as decisive as some have made it out to be. American gunsmiths were not the first to cut grooves into the barrel of a musket, thus putting spin to the lead ball it shot. German gunsmiths were the first to employ the technique. German immigrants brought it with them to the New World and made the refinements and improvements that became the Pennsylvania long rifle and so famously knocked General Simon Fraser out of the saddle at Saratoga and, a few years later, dropped rank after rank of British troops carrying smoothbores that left them outranged and vulnerable to Andrew Jackson's men at New Orleans. Not many years after the American Revolution, firearms began to be produced in mass, on assembly lines. It was here that Eli Whitney refined and realized his breakthrough idea of manufacturing interchangeable parts.
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Weekly Standard
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