They say it was written during a time when firearms technology was so primitive as to make the Amendment irrelevant in the modern age. Gun control advocates often decry modern weaponry as counter to the Second Amendment. This method, though futuristic-looking, would have been familiar to people as far back as Billy Shakespeare…not to mention the folks who used the so-called “Lewis and Clark Air Rifle”. The Metal Storm weapon system uses a stacked, or “superposed load” method of fire. It uses a method called the superposed load to increase Rate of Fire (RoF). Its concept of operation goes back to at least the late 16th century - and was utilized in a weapon offered to the Continental Congress the same year British Generals Burgoyne and Howe were fighting American General George Washington in New York and Pennsylvania. It uses electronic ignition and multiple barrels with superposed projectile loads to achieve a rate of fire equal to tens, even hundreds, of thousands of rounds per minute. This is the Metal Storm, first widely discussed as a modern weapon platform some twenty years ago. Kalthoff Repeater, Belton Flintlock, and “Lewis and Clark Air Rifle” 3 Vintage Assault Rifles of our Forefathers This article originally ran in April of 2017. These are guns that do not quite fit the idea of a Second Amendment written “just for single-shot firearms”. And for the record, “superposed load” is not a category or tag on naughty movie sites. We’re talking about the so-called “Lewis and Clark Air Rifle” (Girandoni Air Rifle), Kalthoff Repeater, and the Belton Flintlock. Yes, today we’ll be talking about the high-capacity weapons in use in the days before Jamestown was settled in Virginia and Shakespeare was still alive. No, today we discuss firearms that will take the angst and ire of gun-hating hoplophobes and safe-space needing liberals to an entirely new level. You’ll hear nothing of Stoner’s first black rifles designs, the STG-44, or the M1 Carbine. Today’s article is not about “assault rifles” as you might think of them.
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