Comments by "Gaza is not Amalek" (@Ass_of_Amalek) on "London-Made Lorenzonis Repeating Flintlocks" video.

  1. I think it's quite likely that many gunsmiths were using water power for some operations (from a wheel in a creek or river) for a couple hundred years before steam engines. so there were SOME power tools, probably including saws, primitive lathes, and mills. it's already massively helpful to just be able to make something spin with some force to ahape round parts as if you were wood turning, as opposed to trying to make something round without rotating it.
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  2. well, besides the issues of safety and machining quality mentioned in the video, I'm sure you can load cartriges or even hand-load single shots much more precisely than by relying on gravity to fill a consistent amount of powder without visually checking it, so the lorennzoni system probably delivers pretty inconsistent velocities and thus bad accuracy or sometimes even insufficient penetration.
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  3. a gun magazine was something else in 1700.
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