On Sat, 02 Aug 2008 22:31:13 GMT, Jerry wrote:

Gunner Asch wrote in
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On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 09:53:07 -0500, "Robert Swinney"
wrote:

Bernie wrote: "During the Civil War,
every citizen soldier had his own musket, each of a slightly different
caliber, so they had to cast their own bullets, and repairing them was
difficult due to lack of interchangeability. Mass manufacturing
methods not that long afterwards resulted in rifles being crafted in
great numbers with precision, which drove the cost down and the
deadliness of warfare up."

Buncha crap, Bernie. Muskets and ammunition were mass produced during
the civil war period. I read your post with some interest until I got
to that part. It totally denigrated anything else you had to say.
The "one bad apple in the barrel thing", don't you know.

Bob Swinney

Bob..many State Militia groups brought their own weapons, from
repeaters to Enfields.

While its indeed true that the Springfield was the Standard arm...

Bernies comments were more true about the Revolutionary war period
however...

Eli Whitney was the father of "weapons interchangability"

Gunner


In the US maybe, but he was 20 years behind, gasp, the french (Blanc) and
whitney never actually actually implemented or even designed a
manufacturing process capable of producing his guns with interchangeable
parts. He did show the need and did the congressional display entirely with
hand made parts.

http://www.eliwhitney.org/arms.htm


http://www.eliwhitney.org/arms.htm#1


Gunner

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methodology is to lie about their real agenda in the hopes of regaining power, at which point they will do whatever they damn well please. The problem is they have concealed and obfuscated for so long that, as a group, they themselves are no longer sure of their goals. They are a collection of wild-eyed splinter groups, all holding a grab-bag of dreams and wishes. Some want a Socialist, secular-humanist state, others the repeal of the Second Amendment. Some want same sex/different species marriage, others want voting rights for trees, fish, coal and bugs. Some want cradle to grave care and
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