Indians For Guns

What was one gun that was pivotal is changing the history of a society?

An obscure air rifle can be credited to have an enormous influence on how the young country of the United States of America developed.

It was a Girandoni, an Italian-made .46 caliber repeating rifle. How it arrived in America in 1803 is unknown but it became the essential weapon of Lewis and Clark on their westward explorations. Without the firepower of the Girandoni, Lewis and Clark may have never survived their journey.

Watch this brilliant video produced by the NRA’s National Firearms Museum. It’s the about history of the gun and how Lewis and Clark capitalized on its features which in turn, made their journey a success.