Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1903 — Breechloaders. [ARTICLE]

Breechloaders.

Breechloading in artillery and small arms is popularly supposed to be an invention of the middle of last century, bat such is by no means tbe case. In a Dublin gunsmith’s ‘shop at Cork Hill is on view a breechloading rifle offered to the British war office at the close of the eighteenth century and rejected, ns it was considered to need too much ammunition!