July 15, 2005
Guns > Meriwether Lewis's Repeating Air Gun
In the It's-News-To-Me-Dept., Lewis and Clark had a repeating air rifle on their expedition. I didn't even know that air guns existed back then, much less repeaters. Beeman's - the air gun company - has an extensive page about Lewis's air rifle and others of that era. Found via The High Road.
Posted by lesjones
Interesting.
Didn't his mother tell him he'd shoot his eye out?
Actually, air guns appeared around the late 1700's. The Austrians used them as sniper rifles against Napoleon's army - something that caused great alarm for the french!