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The industrial revolution with machining tools drill presses, lathes, milling machines and shapers greatly reduce the cost of making weapons. …

For something different, how about a bolo, three weights connected by a cord to a central point. When thrown they rotate about that center point and when they hit a person or animal the cords wrap the …

So flame throwers, firearms with incendiary rounds, perhaps some type of taser like weapons causing thermal burns from electrical current. Gel such as napalm is persistent, sticking to the body. …

Not exactly the answer you are looking for, but I would suggest a steam power tank instead of gun. Heavy armor for protection and a early breach loading cannon in a platform moved by a steam traction …

A decent recurve laminated bow would require a knowledge of making glues, but would outclass most weapons of the day as would a crossbow. …

This would not be effective at short ranges and would be less effective against weapons like shotguns or automatic weapons where the fire could be walked on to the target. …

The simple and crudest weapon would be a iron or steel pipe (lead is too soft and would deform. With a small hole (touch hole) that could be used to ignite the powder by touching it with a flame, perh …

The compound bow and crossbow. Conventional bows like longbows require a certain amount of strength and training to be effective. The cross bow allowed you use mechanical devices like a winch to pull …

Personal defense shields. guard against energy weapons such as lasers and fast moving projectiles (bullets). Swords and knives are slow enough to not activate the shield. …

another alternative would be M203 grenade launcher under mounted to the M16. Besides conventional grenades there is a buckshot round the M576.

To borrow from Dune, kinetic screens. Any object moving fast such as a bullet, get blocked, but slow moving blades can pass through the screen.

There is a company called Firequest that make exotic shotgun ammunition. While the incendiary dragon's breath is more well know, they also make flechette rounds with steel darts and armor piercing rou …

Look up the "le mat" revolver. this was a US civil war revolver that held 6 normal bullets in the cylinder, but the center of the cylinder was shotgun chamber firing buckshot. https://en.wikipedia.org …

To cover the continental US would only take about 4 weapons. The effects of EMP are very brief. In some cases the currents generated ae high enough to damage the device. … Besides nuclear weapons we can also get a EMP event from a solar flare. look up the Carrington Event in 1859 which shut down the telegraph system and even started a few fires from the overloaded lines. …

It exists in the real world today, just not in the USA. In Israel most males and many female are part of the military reserve. During conflicts the country almost shuts down as virtually everyone exce …