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The UK Wants to Replace Its SA80 Rifle. One Problem: With What?

The bullpup-style SA80 service rifle has caused the British Army no small number of headaches—but it is unclear what other weapon it might choose instead.
Shropshire Star

Know your Brown Bess from your SA80? Museum fires up for summer with hands-on weapons demonstrations

This August, Shrewsbury Castle’s Soldiers of Shropshire Museum is ramping up their hands-on weapons demonstrations, running every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, included free with museum entry.
The Virginian-Pilot

Living history: The role of ‘Brown Bess’ in the British defeat at the Battle of Great Bridge

At the beginning of the American Revolution, long before there were weapons of mass destruction, American Patriots faced British soldiers with relatively simple agents of personal destruction. When ...
American Rifleman

Fire a Brown Bess at Colonial Williamsburg's Musket Range

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Brown Bess Musket

The British made flintlock, .71 caliber smooth bore design. British Short Land Pattern musket Brown Bess is the nickname of the British Short Land Pattern musket. It was the standard arm of the ...
The National Interest

The Rifle That Forged the British Empire: The Enfield Pattern 1853 Rifle

As the saying goes, the sun never set on the British Empire. And from the cool, damp British Isles was built the largest empire by landmass the world had ever known. The First British Empire ...