Apr 152013
The Cookson Repeater was a type of firearm that originated in the late 1680s and lasted into the 1800’s. It was a black powder flintlock, but with a difference… internal magazines were provided for powder and balls, up to at least 12, and the turning of a lever would cause a ball and a proper charge of powder to load into the breech. Thus the weapon could fire two shots in only a few seconds, rather than twenty or thirty seconds with a conventional muzzle loading flintlock.
These would have been the machine guns of their day, and likely would have had an appropriately high selling price.
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