That's pretty interesting. I was unaware of swivel guns. Though it appears the first "consumer" versions of semi-automatic rifles are from the early 1900s wit

That's pretty interesting. I was unaware of swivel guns. Though it appears the first "consumer" versions of semi-automatic rifles are from the early 1900s with the M1 Garand being the point of mass adoption: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-automatic_rifle#Notable_early_semi-automatic_rifles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-automatic_rifle#Notable_e...