12-Shot Repeating Flintlock Rifle

[vantec08]

http://www.neatorama.com/2012/09/03/12-Shot-Repeating-Flintlock-Rifle/

Rube Goldberg?

[BroncoBob]

I've never seen or heard of anything like that........ I concur Rube Goldberg for sure

[Army]

There were a few different designs that all operated much the same. While stacked shots were unusual in design and very worrisome to fire, multiple shot weapons were not new even back then.

You could even call it, the assault weapon of the day

[robcoe]

http://www.neatorama.com/2012/09/03/...intlock-Rifle/


Rube Goldberg?

There are actually older wheel lock firearms with 16 rounds(2 8 round bursts, OMG IT"S A MACHINE GUN!!!!!)

[vantec08]

There are actually older wheel lock firearms with 16 rounds(2 8 round bursts, OMG IT"S A MACHINE GUN!!!!!)

wow

[meaty-btz]

It is a conceit of our age that we believe ourselves first among men to an idea, or it's implementation, when men have always been, and perhaps were more brilliant, creative, and insightful, in ages past when they did not stand on the shoulders of giants but were themselves the giants on which we stand.

The needs of man seem to have remained the same throughout the ages and his ideas to solve them as well, the applied science is really all that has been updated.

There are so many creative firearms designs that came about over the centuries. Repeating arms have always been "on our minds" since the advent of firearms.