Who invented the repeating rifle? Rifles: Muzzleloading rifles made their debut in the 1600's in England. These rifles used flintlocks to spark the gunpowder and shoot out a single bullet. Later came the Kentucky Rifle, an American made flintlock that was the weapon of choice during the Amer...
jet aircraft, and nuclear weapons, the average infantryman went into WWII armed essentially the same weapon his parents had used in the last war: a bolt-action, manually-repeating rifle firing a full-power cartridge