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The Telescoping Bolt...

Koda

Koda

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stumbled upon something I never knew before today and how much this impacted pistols today, the telescoping bolt invented by John Browning.

This feature reduces the required length of a weapon such as a submachine gun significantly, and it allows rifle designs to be balanced around the pistol grip in a way that gives "pointability" similar to a pistol's.

This also explains why the 1911 has such a natural "pointability", genius...

Telescoping bolt - Wikipedia
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