Gun Rights

The Gun That Won the Revolution

The American Long Rifle was accurate at long distances, unlike British smoothbores.

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A collage of images related to the American Revolution depicting the use of long rifles | Album / Prisma/Newscom/Library of Congress/
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David Kopel is research director at the Independence Institute.