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- From: jeffs@math.bu.EDU (Jeff Suzuki)
- Subject: period firearms
- Message-ID: <9212301802.AA04380@math.bu.edu>
- Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 18:02:00 GMT
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- A paramount concern over the introduction of firearms into the SCA
- would safety. Period cannon, for example, were about as dangerous to
- their users as they were to the target. Guns slowly became more
- reliable and less dangerous, but even as late as the Civil War (US)
- you still had user casualties.
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- Also, what would the purpose be of introducing them? Demos are one
- thing, but if they were to become another martial art, like archery,
- the safety issue would be extremely important; also, I would imagine
- that there would have to be extremely high standards for
- authorization; many burst barrels were the results of putting too much
- gunpowder into the gun.
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- One more factor: where are we going to get functional period firearms?
- I do not know of any company that manufactures them, although I'm sure
- they exist for the appropriate price. If SCA smiths took to making
- them, they would have to worry about the legal implications of
- manufacturing a possibly dangerous product, etc.
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- Tio dell'abaco
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