Rifles Quotes



The image of early America where the new nation’s men were all skilled marksmen with a rifle was a myth as this quotation shows. It took much more skill to maintain and use a rifle as opposed to a musket. There were few gun makers in America at the time, and it was very difficult to rifle a steel barrel. As a result, rifles were quite expensive and few could afford them.


Said to family and officers who rushed to his hotel room after he accidentally discharged a new breech-loading rifle into his own hand. This was Grant's one and only injury during a long military career.