Comments by "" (@RedXlV) on "Colt Franklin: Detachable 9-Round Magazine of .45-70 in 1884" video.

  1. I'd say the biggest reason this wasn't adopted was that in 1884, the US Army brass were opposed to repeating rifles in general. After all, the Remington-Lee with a proper box magazine was already available 5 years earlier, and the Army was too stupid to adopt it.
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