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.40 cal Booger
Among the first Americans to die for our country was Minuteman Captain Isaac Davis of Acton, Mass. , he was the first American officer to die for our country. His company was chosen to advance on the British during the Battle of Lexington. and Concord. When asked if he was scared, he replied: “No, I am not, and I haven’t a man that is!” During battle he was killed when a British musket ball hit him in the heart. He was also the first American to equip Americans, as a standard ‘magazine’ for a standardized capacity amount of ‘ammunition’, with what anti-gun refer to ‘falsely’ today as ‘high capacity magazines’ for firearms but are more accurately and truthfully actually ‘standard capacity magazines’.
He had very high standards for his company. He gave them markmanship training which was conducted on his own ‘firing range’ behind his house. He was also a gun smith and used those skills to ensure all of his men were equipped with a bayonet like the British were (which other Minuteman companies did not have at the time) and ‘cartridge boxes’ (also that the other Minutemen companies did not have and still loading from power horn – more like a pouch carried over the shoulder or attached to a belt) which allowed his men to reload as quickly as the British did while other troops had to use powder horns which was much slower. These ‘cartridge boxes’ were designed to hold a standard of ’36 rounds’, they were in effect the soldiers personal portable ‘magazine’ for ammo (as opposed to a separate ‘centralized’ ‘powder/ball supply magazine’ cart traveling with the company from which soldiers drew their supply before battle). This ‘cartridge box’ concept of carrying your own ‘magazine’ was refined over the years and eventually morphed into what we call ‘firearm magazines’.
P O T G should simply refer to magazines as magazines and avoid the qualifiers unless ask what the capacity is. Similar to “assault weapons” in meaning imposed by the left to strike fear in the less informed.
Among the first Americans to die for our country was Minuteman Captain Isaac Davis of Acton, Mass. , he was the first American officer to die for our country. His company was chosen to advance on the British during the Battle of Lexington. and Concord. When asked if he was scared, he replied: “No, I am not, and I haven’t a man that is!” During battle he was killed when a British musket ball hit him in the heart. He was also the first American to equip Americans, as a standard ‘magazine’ for a standardized capacity amount of ‘ammunition’, with what anti-gun refer to ‘falsely’ today as ‘high capacity magazines’ for firearms but are more accurately and truthfully actually ‘standard capacity magazines’.
He had very high standards for his company. He gave them markmanship training which was conducted on his own ‘firing range’ behind his house. He was also a gun smith and used those skills to ensure all of his men were equipped with a bayonet like the British were (which other Minuteman companies did not have at the time) and ‘cartridge boxes’ (also that the other Minutemen companies did not have and still loading from power horn – more like a pouch carried over the shoulder or attached to a belt) which allowed his men to reload as quickly as the British did while other troops had to use powder horns which was much slower. These ‘cartridge boxes’ were designed to hold a standard of ’36 rounds’, they were in effect the soldiers personal portable ‘magazine’ for ammo (as opposed to a separate ‘centralized’ ‘powder/ball supply magazine’ cart traveling with the company from which soldiers drew their supply before battle). This ‘cartridge box’ concept of carrying your own ‘magazine’ was refined over the years and eventually morphed into what we call ‘firearm magazines’.
correction for: ‘power horn’
should have been ‘powder horn’
P O T G should simply refer to magazines as magazines and avoid the qualifiers unless ask what the capacity is. Similar to “assault weapons” in meaning imposed by the left to strike fear in the less informed.