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dama...@gmail.com" <
damarkley@gmail.com> on Fri, 31 Mar 2023 04:24:05
-0700 (PDT) typed in alt.history.what-if the following:
>On Thursday, March 30, 2023 at 9:47:01?PM UTC-4, Louis Epstein wrote:
>> Much has been made of the change in weapons since the
>> Second Amendment was adopted.
>>
>> Harry Turtledove had his "Guns of the South" where
>> Confederates were supplied with AK-47s in 1864 by
>> racist time-travellers.
>>
>> What about time-travellers heading back to the 1776-7 period
>> and giving George Washington modern XM7 and XM250 weapons
>> with ammunition so as to make the War of Independence much
>> more quickly resolved?
>>
>> Beyond the effect on the battlefield,would the
>> Americans still feel comfortable writing the Second
>> Amendment into the Constitution if it meant making
>> weapons of such lethality a citizen commonplace?
>>
>> -=-=-
>> The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
>> at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.
>
>Almost certainly so. The Americans in OTL already had better guns
(rifled barrels)
The Brits did have unit armed with Ferguson`s Rifles - a
breechloader flintlock. But it was damned expensive, and "fragile"
for an issue weapon.
>and better marksmanship than the British forces.
Which is still not saying much.
> Now in an ATL, giving them guns with a higher rate of fire and
designed to inflict casualties (wounded and killed vs killed) would doubly
reinforce the original idea of a "Citizen`s Army".
>
>Dean
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