Moron

Supplied by the local town.

 

all the local wally world here has is shotgun ammo. but i still get my cleaning supplies there.

 

so, your point was what, regarding where the minute men got thier guns/ammo..???

the gist of my posting was to inform another member that many people may be against gun ownership of the private citizens, and others are all for it.

frankly, your question as to where the minute men got the weapons, makes no sense.

 

The Minutemen or actually ALL smoothbore weapons up until the time of cartridges were small blocks of lead sold. You had also dies to pour small amounts from the block to make a bullet of say .75 caliber, .69 etc over a regular wood fire in a few minutes. Tap the round out of the die and let cool.

Powder was more difficult. And that is absolutely life itself to keep dry in a quality powder horn in those days. The tube at top of the horn measured out so many grains that your weapon whatever it was can function fairly well.

The ball was bad. However the French invented the Minie Ball. A conical projectile with aft cone that expanded to seal into rifling on the way out. IF the ball shattered bones, this round did even more damage in those days.

You also needed flint that will spark on steel for the flash pan behind and above the trigger.

Those weapons were not too terribly accurate without rifling, however if you were to be hit say in the civil war era from a Enfield .75 your very bones will turn to powder requiring immediate amputation before the infected marrow kills you slowly over a few days to septis, gangrene and other horrible old time preventables. A good surgeon can have a limb off you in about a minute with 4 people holding you down. Leather strap goes between your teeth. You will pass out most of the time before he gets the saw out after making that first loop cut around the main bone around.

In Living history I carried a .75 enfield. And with that one, once my captain at the rear of our Company (Approximately 30 to 50 men) releases us from command fire to at will fire, I shift into a sort of automatic manual at arms drill and get a round out every 18 seconds or so. The main difference is not using the ramrod. If you were in combat and were pushed for time, you slammed the weapon butt first twice on the ground before the ball. The ball should drop in more or less after the wadding.

The Artillery would roll cannon shot along the ground, take out a whole bunch of legs in one go. And if it bounces so much better.

Anthesia if at all availible would have been brandy or something. Maybe some ether in the liquid form if you were lucky. They sold Opium at the what we call a pharmacy today or more exactly a forumulary as far back as 1640 in Williamsburg on the far eastern trade. The price for a single dose of that would be equal to almost 1000 in today's money. We used morphine or opium laudanum equilivant from poppy seed flower for thousands of years. However, the good stuff were not invented until about 1830 codeine in france for cough and later trying to beat Morphine addiciton in about 1874 came up with heroin which made it twice as worse. Along with cocaine etc.

However.

Battlefield medicine as vaccine was first used in Valley Forge. And proper injectors that we know as syringes did not come around until after about the mid 1800's Although a crude larger version was used to cure male STD's with very bad substances.

I think thats quite plenty for old time schooling.

 

this is what some looked like, injected right into the "bore" of a man's pee-pee

 

...The group was unlawfully drinking and smoking in the public park, as well...

So... blue lives still matter, right?

 

Back to the original post topic.
The theory is, society hires a group of people(Law enforcement personnel and organizations) gives them special training/equipment to enforce the laws that another group of people(local/state/ federal elected officials) come up with. If there is a dispute, another group of people( the courts and judges) are asked to settle the matter. Civics 101. 5th grade level.
Just like I would never argue with any LEO, he with badge and gun has the upper hand( and probably a Motorola), many people just don't under stand the simple process above.
Worse, many of our elected officials have also decided to do an end run around the entire process. Releasing felons from prisons, keeping pot stores open but closing stores that sell plants and seeds are some examples. So it is not wholly unexpected for the average citizen to get frustrated. Bad idea, like I said above to take unilateral action.
But more and more civil disobedience is at hand if the trend continues to enforce laws considered to be unfair or unneeded. It has happened in history many times before. Think 55 mile per hour speed limit, think various Civil Rights marches, think Vietnam War protests.
Getting bad vibes here, stay tuned.

 

in my state,

so much for being worried he would catch the corona virus. my take on it is, "you're in jail to serve out your time, YOU DO THE TIME"..

North Kingstown man, released from prison due to coronavirus, back behind bars

so, i got a gun to protect my family, myself, my home, and thank god i do.

how many other "morons" are out right now, committing all sorts of mayhem?