Negligent Behavior Quotes
Rush ran the hospitals for the Revolutionary Army and talked to many officers and enlisted men, and also observed much of the British military practices.
This is historically a very important quotation. It shows that gun control was existant in Colonial America. The violation of the gun laws were so serious that the Connecticut Council itself heard and tried the case and it was not even handled by the constable. On the same day, they also fined Bartholomew Barnardt for allowing his son to shoot a militia musket in his possession. Today, most states would not be allowed much gun control as politically there is a belief that in Colonial America gun use and ownership was almost universal. That assertion appears to be untrue. See {613056} and {613057}.
The newly developed M-16 rifle was resisted by the army brass who did not want to give up their old WWII weapons. There was even cases of army sabatoge of tests to avoid changing weapons. Ironically 40 years later, when the M-16 had been technologically eclipsed by the Russians who had twice the firepower rate and the Israelis who developed a more accurate weapon both more reliable, the army did not want to abandon the M-16 and its shortened version M-4.
