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An Official Journal Of The NRA | From Paper Cartridge To PMAG: 250 Years Of U.S. Infantry Ammunition
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americanrifleman.org | Evan Brune
This sidebar article originally appeared in "From Bunker Hill To Baghdad: 250 Years Of U.S. Infantry Longarms" in the June 2025 issue of American Rifleman. To subscribe to the monthly magazine, visit NRA’s membership page. Any survey of military firearms isn’t complete without also discussing the development of ammunition across this past quarter-millennium. From a conceptual standpoint, very little has changed.
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3 weeks ago |
americanrifleman.org | Evan Brune
Following the outbreak of conflict in Massachusetts in April 1775, the Second Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia in May 1775 to function as a de facto government for the fledgling and tenuous colonial union. When the delegates met, a British army was bottled up in Boston by armed militiamen who had come from surrounding counties and colonies.
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2 months ago |
americanrifleman.org | Evan Brune
Within the historical collection of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, a remarkable survivor of the pivotal encounter on Lexington Green is preserved for posterity. Currently on display at the Massachusetts State House is the flintlock fowler carried onto Lexington Green by Capt. John Parker, who commanded the militiamen arrayed against the advance companies of British light infantry early on the morning of April 19, 1775.
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2 months ago |
americanrifleman.org | Evan Brune
Lexington Green today is a surreal place. If one didn’t know any better, one might mistake it as a simple suburban park, no different than any of the other carefully manicured havens of nature preserved among the sprawling network of roads, shops and houses that characterize many of America’s rapidly growing urban areas.
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2 months ago |
americanrifleman.org | Evan Brune
Even though 250 years have elapsed since the fateful first shots of the American Revolution—fired on April 19, 1775—there are still pieces of evidence remaining from the day’s fighting. In Bullet Strikes From The First Day Of The American Revolution, authors Joel Bohy and Douglas Scott provide tantalizing insights gleaned from a comprehensive study of surviving structures and artifacts struck by gunfire during the fighting in and around the towns of Lexington and Concord.
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