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On February 5, 1840, Hiram Stevens Maxim, inventor (automatic single-barrel rifle) was born in Sangerville, Maine. From the article:
"Sir Hiram Maxim - Engineering and Technology History
Birthdate
1840/02/05
Birthplace
Sangersville, Maine
Death date
1916/11/24
Associated organizations
Victors Ltd., United States Electric Lighting Company
Fields of study
Mechanical Engineering, Weapons Engineering
Awards
Decorated by French Government, Knighted by Queen Victoria in 1900
Biography
Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim was a prominent American-born British inventor who created a number of devices, and owned a multitude of patents. He is predominately known for inventing the Maxim Machine Gun, the first easily portable fully automatic weapon. [1]
Hiram Maxim was born 5 February 1840, in Sangersville, Maine. He was raised by his poor father who owned a sheep farm. Tending sheep through his childhood, Maxim's only education came from five years spent within a one-room schoolhouse. There he learned basic skills, such as reading and writing. At the age of fourteen, he was apprenticed to a carriage maker. Working in a mouse infested mill, Maxim showed signs of ingenuity when he developed an automated mouse trap, a design that is still used today in common households. [2]
Following his service as an apprentice, he moved from job to job in search of places where he could apply his inventive mind. During the process, he created a silicate blackboard, and was able to successfully patent his first invention in 1866, the hair-curling iron. Maxim later invented a device that generates illuminating gas and locomotive headlights, and was hired as the chief engineer of the United States Electric Lighting Company. In the latter position he created a method of manufacturing carbon filaments. [3]
In 1881, he displayed an electric pressure regulator at the Paris Exposition, representing the United States Electric Lighting Company. Maxim was decorated by the French Government for his work with electricity and the invention of the electric pressure regulator.[4] While at the exhibition, a man told Maxim that if he wanted to make a fortune, he should invent a machine that would help the Europeans kill one another. Wanting to apply his skills, the suggestion stood with him. [5]
In that same year, he moved to England to represent the United States Electric Lighting Company to an English audience. Taking with him the advice that was given to him by the stranger, he began to take interest in weaponry, and developed a machine gun in 1884. [6]
A successor to Richard Jordan Gatling and his Gatling Gun, Maxim's machine gun differed in a few crucial ways. Where the Gating gun operated with ten barrels and a maximum fire rate of 1200 rounds per minute, Maxim's weapon was fired via a manual cranking mechanism. It aimed to harness the recoil power of each bullet, a force strong enough to eject the used cartridge and draw in another, and the design required only one barrel to fire all of its bullets automatically without the need to "crank" the weapon. He also developed his own smokeless powder, cordite, to minimize smog when firing. Additionally, the Maxim Machine Gun was far more mobile then the Gatling gun. [7]
In 1884, he founded the Maxim Gun Company in Britain to produce his new weapon, marketing it as a gun that fired by itself with the simple touch of a button. It was rebuked, and labeled incredulous. When Maxim offered his services to the U.S. War Department, they refused; they deemed it unworthy by U.S. military standards. Then Maxim demonstrated his weapon to the British, particularly to the English Royalty. Impressed by the demonstration, the British ordered Maxim's gun for Her Majesty's Royal Forces. Eventually, the Maxim Gun Company merged with Nordenfelt Guns and Ammunition Co. of England. [8]
Maxim successfully sold his weapon to the armed forces of the British Empire. However, there were many in the army of the high command who astounded by the invention but they could not foresee a practical use for it. It was used predominately to scare and impress other factions, including during the Matabele War of 1893-94. Eventually other European countries expressed interest in buying the machine gun, including Germany. His company was later absorbed into Victors Ltd., of which he became the director. The Victors machine gun, identical to the Maxim machine gun design, became the standard issue weapon of its type in the British army during the First World War. [9]
Throughout his career, Maxim received 122 United States patents and 149 British patent. Toward the end of his career, he devoted much of his time and energy to aeronautical experiments. In 1894, Maxim built an airship to study the lift and thrust of various wing shapes and propellers, but did not develop a method on controlling the craft. However, he did use an incredibly heavy, steam-propelled machine, proving that mechanical flight with heavy machinery was possible. [10]
Maxim used this design to create an amusement ride, the Captive Flying machine. The ride proved to be immensely popular in British fairgrounds. Maxim was knighted by Queen Victoria in 1900, confirming him as a royal subject. Hiram Maxim passed away on 24 November 1916, only days before the Battle of the Somme, where more than one million soldiers were killed during the course of four months, many by the Maxim machine gun. [11]"
"Sir Hiram Maxim - Engineering and Technology History
Birthdate
1840/02/05
Birthplace
Sangersville, Maine
Death date
1916/11/24
Associated organizations
Victors Ltd., United States Electric Lighting Company
Fields of study
Mechanical Engineering, Weapons Engineering
Awards
Decorated by French Government, Knighted by Queen Victoria in 1900
Biography
Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim was a prominent American-born British inventor who created a number of devices, and owned a multitude of patents. He is predominately known for inventing the Maxim Machine Gun, the first easily portable fully automatic weapon. [1]
Hiram Maxim was born 5 February 1840, in Sangersville, Maine. He was raised by his poor father who owned a sheep farm. Tending sheep through his childhood, Maxim's only education came from five years spent within a one-room schoolhouse. There he learned basic skills, such as reading and writing. At the age of fourteen, he was apprenticed to a carriage maker. Working in a mouse infested mill, Maxim showed signs of ingenuity when he developed an automated mouse trap, a design that is still used today in common households. [2]
Following his service as an apprentice, he moved from job to job in search of places where he could apply his inventive mind. During the process, he created a silicate blackboard, and was able to successfully patent his first invention in 1866, the hair-curling iron. Maxim later invented a device that generates illuminating gas and locomotive headlights, and was hired as the chief engineer of the United States Electric Lighting Company. In the latter position he created a method of manufacturing carbon filaments. [3]
In 1881, he displayed an electric pressure regulator at the Paris Exposition, representing the United States Electric Lighting Company. Maxim was decorated by the French Government for his work with electricity and the invention of the electric pressure regulator.[4] While at the exhibition, a man told Maxim that if he wanted to make a fortune, he should invent a machine that would help the Europeans kill one another. Wanting to apply his skills, the suggestion stood with him. [5]
In that same year, he moved to England to represent the United States Electric Lighting Company to an English audience. Taking with him the advice that was given to him by the stranger, he began to take interest in weaponry, and developed a machine gun in 1884. [6]
A successor to Richard Jordan Gatling and his Gatling Gun, Maxim's machine gun differed in a few crucial ways. Where the Gating gun operated with ten barrels and a maximum fire rate of 1200 rounds per minute, Maxim's weapon was fired via a manual cranking mechanism. It aimed to harness the recoil power of each bullet, a force strong enough to eject the used cartridge and draw in another, and the design required only one barrel to fire all of its bullets automatically without the need to "crank" the weapon. He also developed his own smokeless powder, cordite, to minimize smog when firing. Additionally, the Maxim Machine Gun was far more mobile then the Gatling gun. [7]
In 1884, he founded the Maxim Gun Company in Britain to produce his new weapon, marketing it as a gun that fired by itself with the simple touch of a button. It was rebuked, and labeled incredulous. When Maxim offered his services to the U.S. War Department, they refused; they deemed it unworthy by U.S. military standards. Then Maxim demonstrated his weapon to the British, particularly to the English Royalty. Impressed by the demonstration, the British ordered Maxim's gun for Her Majesty's Royal Forces. Eventually, the Maxim Gun Company merged with Nordenfelt Guns and Ammunition Co. of England. [8]
Maxim successfully sold his weapon to the armed forces of the British Empire. However, there were many in the army of the high command who astounded by the invention but they could not foresee a practical use for it. It was used predominately to scare and impress other factions, including during the Matabele War of 1893-94. Eventually other European countries expressed interest in buying the machine gun, including Germany. His company was later absorbed into Victors Ltd., of which he became the director. The Victors machine gun, identical to the Maxim machine gun design, became the standard issue weapon of its type in the British army during the First World War. [9]
Throughout his career, Maxim received 122 United States patents and 149 British patent. Toward the end of his career, he devoted much of his time and energy to aeronautical experiments. In 1894, Maxim built an airship to study the lift and thrust of various wing shapes and propellers, but did not develop a method on controlling the craft. However, he did use an incredibly heavy, steam-propelled machine, proving that mechanical flight with heavy machinery was possible. [10]
Maxim used this design to create an amusement ride, the Captive Flying machine. The ride proved to be immensely popular in British fairgrounds. Maxim was knighted by Queen Victoria in 1900, confirming him as a royal subject. Hiram Maxim passed away on 24 November 1916, only days before the Battle of the Somme, where more than one million soldiers were killed during the course of four months, many by the Maxim machine gun. [11]"
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The Best Documentary Ever - Maxim Gun
The Maxim gun was the first recoil-operated machine gun, invented by the American-born British inventor Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim in 1884. It has been called ....
Thank you, my friend SGT (Join to see) for making us aware that February 5 is the anniversary of the birth of the inventor of a legendary single-barreled water-cooled machine gun that was rejected by the USA but was adopted first by the British military and was adapted by the Germans and used extensively in WWI.
His weapon fulfilled the goal of being able to slaughter hundreds of enemy soldiers thousands of times over. The Maxim adopted by the UK and commonwealth nations and its variants used by Germany, the Bolsheviks in Russia and others changed infantry tactics significantly and eliminated the utility of horse cavalry formations in an attack.
Images:
1. The Maschinengewehr 08, or MG 08, was the German Army's standard machine gun in World War I and is an adaptation of Hiram S. Maxim's original 1884 Maxim gun. It was produced in a number of variants during the war.
2. 1884 Hiram Maxim and his machine gun.
3. A diagram of the Maxim gun
4. 1952 UN troops deploy a Maxim-type machine gun in Korea
The Maxim gun was the first recoil-operated machine gun, invented by the American-born British inventor Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim in 1884.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT0n2bP5v7E
Background from militaryhistorynow.com/2017/10/24/machine-gun-how-hiram-maxims-rapid-fire-invention-changed-history/
"Machine Gun — How Hiram Maxim’s Deadly Invention Changed History
By Sam Bocetta
HIRAM MAXIM WAS a prolific American inventor. During his lifetime, he devised mousetraps, curling irons, steam pumps, bronchitis inhalers, and even an amusement park ride. He also tinkered with powered flight, early radio technology and light bulbs.
It wasn’t until 1882 however that the 42-year-old inventor conceived his most famous creation.
“I was in Vienna, where I met an American whom I had known in the States,” Maxim told the Times of London. “He said: ‘Hang your chemistry and electricity! If you want to make a pile of money, invent something that will enable these Europeans to cut each other’s throats with greater facility.’ ”
Over the course of the next three years, Maxim toiled in his London workshop and, lo, the Maxim machine gun was born.
Ironically, Hiram’s creation would not initially be used by Europeans to kill one another, but by the continent’s imperial powers to slaughter their colonial enemies by the thousands. In fact, Maxim’s gun was so effective at keeping the peace in Britain’s sprawling empire, Queen Victoria bestowed a knighthood on the inventor in 1900.
In just one battle during the 1893 Matabele War, Maxim guns cut down more than 1,600 warriors. Tribal leaders were so despondent by the slaughter, they committed suicide en masse by throwing themselves on their spears.
The writer Hilaire Belloc summed things up best in 1898’s The Modern Traveller when he observed: “Whatever happens, we have got, the Maxim gun, and they have not.”
Historians have hotly debated whether or not the Maxim killed more people than any other gun in history. And while it would be hard to prove or disprove that theory, by all accounts, it definitely made a dent to say the very least.
As John Ellis wrote in his masterful work The Social History of the Machine Gun, “without Hiram Maxim, much of subsequent world history might have been different.”
One place the weapon did change history was on the Western Front of the First World War. In fact, it alone was responsible for the conflict’s grim nickname: “the machine gun war.” Of course, there was a veritable plethora of rapid-fire weaponry in use between 1914 and 1918, but none attacked the enemy’s psyche quite like the many variants of the Maxim gun.
It would see action again on battlefields of the Second World War, as well as the Korean conflict, and would be used by no fewer than 29 countries between 1886 to 1959. Yet despite this, it is still perhaps most associated with the British imperial conquest.
Some scholars have debated the actual role the Maxim played in colonial warfare, positing that its true significance was due more to the psychological impact it had on Britain’s adversaries rather than its efficacy as a firearm.
Deadly by Design
Although, many 19th Century inventors had experimented with automatic weapons, Maxim’s gun was a game changer.
By employing one of the earliest recoil-operated firing systems, the Maxim was able to quickly excrete a spent cartridge and insert the next one, whereas earlier firearms required manual mechanism. As a result, it was less labor-intensive than other early rapid-fire weapons.
Chambered for the .303 British, a cartridge not dissimilar to the modern day .308 Win in terms of stopping power, the Maxim had approximately 2,000 pounds of force at the 500-yard mark.
And with a 250-round canvas belt feeding system and a rate of fire of 600 rounds per minute, it’s no wonder the weapon inspired terror among those in its way.
By diminishing gas buildup in the barrel, the Maxim was able to fire more loads in extended sessions without the barrel overheating. Whereas most weapons of the time were air-cooled, the Maxim gun was water-cooled to sustain its rate of fire.
The Maxim weighed-in and an unwieldy 60 pounds and had an overall length of 42.5 inches. It typically took a crew of four to six men to load, reload, align, carry and care for the Maxim. At least one man was needed on standby with water and ammo.
Not only was the Maxim more accurate when fired at distant targets, but it was also renowned for being far more reliable than its counterparts.
Users and Variants
The U.S. Army had heard tell of the awesome power of the Maxim as early as 1887. Eventually, it experimented with 1889 and 1900 models as possible infantry weapons. Testing lasted for some time before the Maxim was adopted in 1904 as the .30 Caliber Model 1904.
Russia was also a major customer. Already in use there at the time of the country’s 1904 to 1905 war with Japan, once hostilities were underway, the Tsar’s generals placed a rush order 450 additional Maxims from overseas manufacturers.
The Maxim enjoyed substantial longevity with the improved Vickers machine gun model being introduced into the British Army in the early 1900s. The redesigned Vickers model possessed a maximum firing range of 4,500 yards and had a 500-round rate of fire. It would remain in service until the late-1960s.
Germany adopted its own variant of the Maxim in 1908. The Maschinengewehr 08 or Maxim MG08 became the heavy machine gun of choice among the Kaiser’s soldiers. It would continue to be used by the armies of the Third Reich.
Operating on a short barrel recoil and a toggle lock, the MG08 was an improvement upon previously models in that once it was cocked and discharged, it would continue to fire off rounds until the gunner released the trigger or until all ammo in the 250-round fabric belt was spent.
The MG08 had an impressive range of 3,900 yards. Needless to say, in order to contend with such a weapon, Germany’s enemies turned to their own Maxim variants, including the PM M1910, the Russian version of the Maxim, which would see action on the Eastern Front in 1914 as well as the 1919 to 1922 civil war.
The Russian M1910 was mounted on a wheeled chassis with a gun shield and was chambered for 7.62x54mm cartridges. This caliber was and is ideal for extended shooting sessions. The weapon had a firing rate of 700 rounds per minute and an M/v of 2,296 fps, making it was nearly twice as powerful as your everyday small game air rifle or a modern Glock pistol, both of which clock in around 1,200 fps.
Another key variant was the larger-caliber variant known as the “Pom-Pom.” This version of the Maxim fired a one-pound shell and proved devastatingly effective during the Second Boer War in South Africa. This particular variant was said to have much longer ranges than the other British artillery of the time.
Maxim’s legacy
Popular Mechanics has called the Maxim “one of the best firearms ever made,” writing about the incredible structural integrity of the weapon.
In its review, the magazine referenced a 1963 test in Yorkshire by a class of British army armorers. The evaluation employed a Vickers that was no longer considered fit for military use. Using no less than 5 million rounds, the team took turns firing the entire stockpile over the course of a week.
After seven days of nearly continuous fire, the Vickers was broken apart for inspection. The results were mind-boggling. The gun was ruled to be within service spec across every dimension.
Throughout the years, the Maxim has been reconsidered and rebuilt several times – just like today’s Maxim Firearms‘ official slogan, which reads: “Back to the drawing board.” In 2017, the Maxim brand produces AR-15 assault rifles, along with replacement parts and accessories.
The AR-15 is and always has been an impressive weapon in its own right, but when it comes to ingenuity and intricacy of design, nothing quite measures up to the classic Maxim. There’s a reason it has long been a mainstay in the modern world of Steampunk.
With its pintle latch lever, cradle clamping handle, traversing dial, water jacket, belt feed slide, drive spring rod, cradle pintle socket, iron sights, elevating arc and traversing handwheel, it looks like the stuff of pure imagination. But it couldn’t get more real if it tried.
Sam Bocetta is a writer at Gun News Daily where he covers US gun news and reviews the latest firearm products and gear."
FYI LTC Stephen C. LTC (Join to see) Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen Lt Col Charlie Brown Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. Maj William W. "Bill" Price Maj Marty Hogan SCPO Morris Ramsey SGT Mark Halmrast Sgt Randy Wilber Sgt John H. SGT Gregory Lawritson CPL Dave Hoover SPC Margaret Higgins SSgt Brian Brakke 1stSgt Eugene Harless CPT Scott Sharon SSG William Jones
His weapon fulfilled the goal of being able to slaughter hundreds of enemy soldiers thousands of times over. The Maxim adopted by the UK and commonwealth nations and its variants used by Germany, the Bolsheviks in Russia and others changed infantry tactics significantly and eliminated the utility of horse cavalry formations in an attack.
Images:
1. The Maschinengewehr 08, or MG 08, was the German Army's standard machine gun in World War I and is an adaptation of Hiram S. Maxim's original 1884 Maxim gun. It was produced in a number of variants during the war.
2. 1884 Hiram Maxim and his machine gun.
3. A diagram of the Maxim gun
4. 1952 UN troops deploy a Maxim-type machine gun in Korea
The Maxim gun was the first recoil-operated machine gun, invented by the American-born British inventor Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim in 1884.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT0n2bP5v7E
Background from militaryhistorynow.com/2017/10/24/machine-gun-how-hiram-maxims-rapid-fire-invention-changed-history/
"Machine Gun — How Hiram Maxim’s Deadly Invention Changed History
By Sam Bocetta
HIRAM MAXIM WAS a prolific American inventor. During his lifetime, he devised mousetraps, curling irons, steam pumps, bronchitis inhalers, and even an amusement park ride. He also tinkered with powered flight, early radio technology and light bulbs.
It wasn’t until 1882 however that the 42-year-old inventor conceived his most famous creation.
“I was in Vienna, where I met an American whom I had known in the States,” Maxim told the Times of London. “He said: ‘Hang your chemistry and electricity! If you want to make a pile of money, invent something that will enable these Europeans to cut each other’s throats with greater facility.’ ”
Over the course of the next three years, Maxim toiled in his London workshop and, lo, the Maxim machine gun was born.
Ironically, Hiram’s creation would not initially be used by Europeans to kill one another, but by the continent’s imperial powers to slaughter their colonial enemies by the thousands. In fact, Maxim’s gun was so effective at keeping the peace in Britain’s sprawling empire, Queen Victoria bestowed a knighthood on the inventor in 1900.
In just one battle during the 1893 Matabele War, Maxim guns cut down more than 1,600 warriors. Tribal leaders were so despondent by the slaughter, they committed suicide en masse by throwing themselves on their spears.
The writer Hilaire Belloc summed things up best in 1898’s The Modern Traveller when he observed: “Whatever happens, we have got, the Maxim gun, and they have not.”
Historians have hotly debated whether or not the Maxim killed more people than any other gun in history. And while it would be hard to prove or disprove that theory, by all accounts, it definitely made a dent to say the very least.
As John Ellis wrote in his masterful work The Social History of the Machine Gun, “without Hiram Maxim, much of subsequent world history might have been different.”
One place the weapon did change history was on the Western Front of the First World War. In fact, it alone was responsible for the conflict’s grim nickname: “the machine gun war.” Of course, there was a veritable plethora of rapid-fire weaponry in use between 1914 and 1918, but none attacked the enemy’s psyche quite like the many variants of the Maxim gun.
It would see action again on battlefields of the Second World War, as well as the Korean conflict, and would be used by no fewer than 29 countries between 1886 to 1959. Yet despite this, it is still perhaps most associated with the British imperial conquest.
Some scholars have debated the actual role the Maxim played in colonial warfare, positing that its true significance was due more to the psychological impact it had on Britain’s adversaries rather than its efficacy as a firearm.
Deadly by Design
Although, many 19th Century inventors had experimented with automatic weapons, Maxim’s gun was a game changer.
By employing one of the earliest recoil-operated firing systems, the Maxim was able to quickly excrete a spent cartridge and insert the next one, whereas earlier firearms required manual mechanism. As a result, it was less labor-intensive than other early rapid-fire weapons.
Chambered for the .303 British, a cartridge not dissimilar to the modern day .308 Win in terms of stopping power, the Maxim had approximately 2,000 pounds of force at the 500-yard mark.
And with a 250-round canvas belt feeding system and a rate of fire of 600 rounds per minute, it’s no wonder the weapon inspired terror among those in its way.
By diminishing gas buildup in the barrel, the Maxim was able to fire more loads in extended sessions without the barrel overheating. Whereas most weapons of the time were air-cooled, the Maxim gun was water-cooled to sustain its rate of fire.
The Maxim weighed-in and an unwieldy 60 pounds and had an overall length of 42.5 inches. It typically took a crew of four to six men to load, reload, align, carry and care for the Maxim. At least one man was needed on standby with water and ammo.
Not only was the Maxim more accurate when fired at distant targets, but it was also renowned for being far more reliable than its counterparts.
Users and Variants
The U.S. Army had heard tell of the awesome power of the Maxim as early as 1887. Eventually, it experimented with 1889 and 1900 models as possible infantry weapons. Testing lasted for some time before the Maxim was adopted in 1904 as the .30 Caliber Model 1904.
Russia was also a major customer. Already in use there at the time of the country’s 1904 to 1905 war with Japan, once hostilities were underway, the Tsar’s generals placed a rush order 450 additional Maxims from overseas manufacturers.
The Maxim enjoyed substantial longevity with the improved Vickers machine gun model being introduced into the British Army in the early 1900s. The redesigned Vickers model possessed a maximum firing range of 4,500 yards and had a 500-round rate of fire. It would remain in service until the late-1960s.
Germany adopted its own variant of the Maxim in 1908. The Maschinengewehr 08 or Maxim MG08 became the heavy machine gun of choice among the Kaiser’s soldiers. It would continue to be used by the armies of the Third Reich.
Operating on a short barrel recoil and a toggle lock, the MG08 was an improvement upon previously models in that once it was cocked and discharged, it would continue to fire off rounds until the gunner released the trigger or until all ammo in the 250-round fabric belt was spent.
The MG08 had an impressive range of 3,900 yards. Needless to say, in order to contend with such a weapon, Germany’s enemies turned to their own Maxim variants, including the PM M1910, the Russian version of the Maxim, which would see action on the Eastern Front in 1914 as well as the 1919 to 1922 civil war.
The Russian M1910 was mounted on a wheeled chassis with a gun shield and was chambered for 7.62x54mm cartridges. This caliber was and is ideal for extended shooting sessions. The weapon had a firing rate of 700 rounds per minute and an M/v of 2,296 fps, making it was nearly twice as powerful as your everyday small game air rifle or a modern Glock pistol, both of which clock in around 1,200 fps.
Another key variant was the larger-caliber variant known as the “Pom-Pom.” This version of the Maxim fired a one-pound shell and proved devastatingly effective during the Second Boer War in South Africa. This particular variant was said to have much longer ranges than the other British artillery of the time.
Maxim’s legacy
Popular Mechanics has called the Maxim “one of the best firearms ever made,” writing about the incredible structural integrity of the weapon.
In its review, the magazine referenced a 1963 test in Yorkshire by a class of British army armorers. The evaluation employed a Vickers that was no longer considered fit for military use. Using no less than 5 million rounds, the team took turns firing the entire stockpile over the course of a week.
After seven days of nearly continuous fire, the Vickers was broken apart for inspection. The results were mind-boggling. The gun was ruled to be within service spec across every dimension.
Throughout the years, the Maxim has been reconsidered and rebuilt several times – just like today’s Maxim Firearms‘ official slogan, which reads: “Back to the drawing board.” In 2017, the Maxim brand produces AR-15 assault rifles, along with replacement parts and accessories.
The AR-15 is and always has been an impressive weapon in its own right, but when it comes to ingenuity and intricacy of design, nothing quite measures up to the classic Maxim. There’s a reason it has long been a mainstay in the modern world of Steampunk.
With its pintle latch lever, cradle clamping handle, traversing dial, water jacket, belt feed slide, drive spring rod, cradle pintle socket, iron sights, elevating arc and traversing handwheel, it looks like the stuff of pure imagination. But it couldn’t get more real if it tried.
Sam Bocetta is a writer at Gun News Daily where he covers US gun news and reviews the latest firearm products and gear."
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