Guns helped to liberate America from the UK or British Control & Taxation
Guns helps American win the southwestern states from Mexico
Guns with revolver technology was the step forward that gave the advantage over slower hand loaded muscle weapons. Old flint lock style front hand loaded weapons take 20-40 seconds to reset.
The COLT pistol with 5 ready to go rounds could fire 10X faster. Even switching from flint lock to precision cap gave a huge leap forward.
In the Mexican American war, older heavier & less reliable weapons gave Mexico a bad disadvantage. The black powder heavy single shot front hand loaded rifles were long, heavy & slow to fire, not reliable, prone to problems, & thus Mexico was out-gunned.
In the 1980's Glock Pistols with extended magazines gave people with them an advantage over revolvers that hold many fewer rounds.
In the Military repeating handguns, the famous 44 Colt Walker, used by the Texas Rangers, were instrumental in helping to win many of the battles.
Colt Patent Repeating Pistols were the Glock of their day.
I read the book Glock about the history of the Austrian Pistol inventor & his famous Company, even how they managed to skirt paying taxes on Gaston Glocks long road from curtain rods & knife making to investing a Glock with only 34 parts all made on CNC machining machines to high precision. This makes Glock pistols jam resistant even when clogged with mud, dirt, water or other debris. The precision machined parts also make the Glock pistols highly reliable & easily to clean, clear, oil & maintain. Glocks are so popular that many replacement parts are widely available. Glock 9mm pistols are famous the world over for these virtues, including the strong, long lasting, Nylon 2 custom polymer lower that Glock worked with plastics experts for many years to develop, that makes the lower of the Glock lower mass, electrically insulating, dent resistant, tough & resilient.
Smooth Bore Flintlocks gave rise to percussion cap muskets, the same way that inaccurate smooth bore weapons were replaced with rifled barrels that enable bullets to travel further with greater accuracy by spinning the bullet with the twisting spiral groves. The mini-ball with a conical shape & hollow base allows the gas create by the burning powder in the case to inflate press the skirt into the spiral twisting rifling in the barrel. Walter hunt filled the hollow bullet case with gun powder & a cap with a hole. A volitional repeater rifle with breach loading & improved bullet designs sold to George Aerosmith. The fulminate primer cap was a new technology. Newly improved ammunition in repeating weapons gave huge advantages to those using them in war. Robinson Lawerence Company making guns in America using Hunt's efficient designs thus formed Smith & Wesson. Business fusion created the Henry Repeating Rifle. The Civil war was a huge blood bath of killing fields using these newly created weapons technologies.
Cannons were instrumental in winning all world wars, then tanks, then rifles, then pistols. Now directed energy weapons like rail guns, masers, plasma guns, bioweapons of viral, bacterial, fungal or protozoan pathogens turned into munitions or into contaminated foods, MRE or similar. Tactical nuclear weapons, then artificial intelligence. Today in the 4IR or fourth Industrial Revolution, those who control information, Alphabet Inc. parent company of famous Google Search Engine or NVIDIA or Amazon or EBAY or Microsoft or ASML or Qualcomm. Its hard to say who will win the information wars of the future as WWIII looms on the horizon, food & fuel supply chain interruptions to price inflation of the $100 2X4 lumber or $50 for 10lbs of flour or $200 for a bag of rice. Toilet paper & gasoline shortages and price gouging could mean $20 per roll & $30 per gallon. It's going to become a luxury to afford even the basics in life as biological weapons unleashed in World War 3 are going to indescriminately kill billions of people.
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