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After the civil war ended most of them used army surplus repeating rifles that the US Army Ordnance department had declared obsolete in favor of the new single shotSpringfield Trapdoor rifle and sold for scrap value. Ordnance decided repeating rifles high fire rate wasted ammo.

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