It was the small arms gun which protected our pioneers. won us independence. preserved our independence. won the West. and helped deter invaders from our shores for 150 years. Few States have produced as many successful gunsmiths as my own great State of Pennsylvania. It was the immigrant German armorers of Pennsylvania who invented the first distinctly American firearm in the 18th centurythe Kentucky riflethe rifle which outshot and outgunned the inferior muskets of the British and German mercenaries in the War of Independence. Another Pennsylvanian. Christian Sharps of Philadelphia. more than 100 years after the invention of the Kentucky rifle. produced the first breechloading rifle.
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