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When you do historically based gaming, you start looking for trends to get better weapons.
Here's something I noticed:
For more than a century in the US, the trend was for higher capacity, faster shooting firearms.
The revolver is a development to increase the rate of fire when the state of the art was a single shot muzzle loader.
Wait. We have to go farther back.
A pepper box was the actual development to increase the rate of fire. The revolver was to make it handier.
Metallic cartridges come about to increase the rate of fire by making it faster to reload.
Break open and swing out cylinders in revolvers are to increase the rate of fire.
Semi-automatics and box magazines exist to increase the rate of fire.
AND THIS IS JUST HANDGUNS!
Rifles got a significant increase in capacity and rate of fire with tube magazines.
Later box magazines and stripper clips speed the reload time when combined with the developed-for-the-military bolt action becomes dominant.
The semi-automatic Garand increases the rate of fire.
Notice we haven't even mentioned a machine gun yet?
Yeah.
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