When compared to early rifles, present day rifles are smaller, lighter, less expensive, more accurate, have a greater range and fire much more quickly.
Do a google search on continential rifles or multi barrel rifle systems.
Materials and designs.
They had long ranges rifles that were vital to the defeat against the British and were twice as better distance and more accurate weapons.
A number of rifles did not have serial numbers prior to 1968. but, that has changed.
It changed the world by giving people ideas to make more long-ranged weapons instead of the short-ranged which causes more causalties, like sniper rifles.
Muzzle loading rifles with the capability of 3 to 4 shots a minute have been replaced with full automatic assault rifles with the capability of over 750 shots a minute. There are many other changes.
No they did not have rifles. They had muskets. They did not have rifles until the late 18th century.
Smith and Wesson does not build rifles. The rifles they sell are made for them.
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at the end of the civil war the US government had thousands of 58 caliber percussion rifles. it was descided to cut a top loading gate into the top of the receivers of the percussion rifles, replace the barrels and transform said rifles into 50/70 caliber cartridge rifles. since the loading gate swung upward, like a 'trapdoor', the name stuck to that model rife. the name remained when the 50/70 caliber was changed over to the 45/70 in the1873 model
NO.
The collective noun is an arsenal of rifles.