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Kentucky does not require registration of ordinary Title I firearms.
The Kentucky Long-Rifle is known alternatively as the Pennsylvania Long-Rifle, and the American Long-Rifle. Being from the Commonwealth of Kentucly the author of this answer asserts that Kentucky Long-Rifle is the one and true proper name. Now, as to the meat of the question. This long pattern of rifle first appeared in Pennsylvania as a product of German immigrants to the American Colonies. Due to its capabilities the gun rapidly proliferated from there. This type of firearm came to be known as the 'Kentucky Long-Rifle' in later years for a number of reasons. The most important of which would be that in colonial times the men of Kentucky had a reputation not only as hunters; but as Sharpshooters wielding this distinctive family of long-rifles.
Flayderman's Guide to Antique American Firearms
Rifles and shotguns are separate types of firearm. The Kentucky Long-Rifle was as its name implies a rifle, not a shotgun.
Yes, the noun 'firearms' is a general noun.The noun 'rifle' is a specific noun for a type of firearm.
Only if the scope is designed for an air rifle. Because of the recoil being different on an air rifle than a firearms rifle. Air rifle scopes are made differently than firearms scopes. A firearms scope can break it's glass mounts if it is used on an air rifle.
The first gun with a rifled barrel (a rifle is any gun with grooves cut into the barrel to give the projectile spin) used by American forces was the Kentucky rifle, used in the revolutionary war.
Kentucky Rifle - 1955 is rated/received certificates of: Iceland:16 Norway:12
Matchlock rifle, Brown Bess musket, Kentucky rifle, Springfield rifled musket, Dreyse 'Needle Gun', Mauser rifle, Short Magazine Lee-Enfield rifle, Stg. 44/MP43, Maxim machine gun, MG34 and MG42, FN FAL, FN MAG, AK-47 and AKM.
The address of the Rifle Historical Society Inc is: Po Box 1882, Rifle, CO 81650-1882
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Sniping goes back to the American Revolution, when the Kentucky Rifle was used by sharpshooters behind the American front lines to take out high value targets, such as officers. The Kentucky Rifle had much better performance at range, because it had a rifled barrel vs. the smoothbore barrel of the Brown Bess musket. However, it had no sights, and was slower to load.