Let's play a game..... (facts, origin, royal, years)

[bus man]

Originally Posted by TamaraSavannah

It is argued by some that the Founding Fathers had no clue of how weapons would advance past the muskets of their day. The work of this man, however, puts a serious dent in that point. Who was this man?

Samuel Colt?

[TamaraSavannah]

1. No

We are talking second amendment here so the man in question has to have "input" around 1787.......and Mr. Colt was born in 1814.

[Grandstander]

Is this person associated with the invention or development of a weapon?

[TamaraSavannah]

2. Yes

[Grandstander]

1. Was this weapon a rifle?

2. Was this weapon a new bullet?

3. Was this person alive at the time of the writing of the US Constitution?

[TamaraSavannah]

3. Yes in that it was not a single handed weapon. Whether or not it had a rifled barrel is unknown and that answer is probably no. In the interest of simplicity, however, "rifle" will be defined, here, as a weapon that is not held in one hand.

4. No.

5. CORRECTION, I misread the date, the man in question was not alive at the of the Constitution.

[SunGrins]

I would guess Eli Whitney but he was too young to have a role in the 2nd amendment.

[TamaraSavannah]

6. No, it is neither Whitney nor his popular concept interchangeable parts which, the latter, basically, far predate the Constitution.

[Grandstander]

James Wilson and his Henry Nock volley gun?

[TamaraSavannah]

7. No, close but no cigar.