Why aren crossbows more popular a military/assassin/sniper weapon?
I haven’t tried to find a link to that. As I said, it was on the “YOU ASKED FOR IT” show with Art Baker as the host. I was still in high school at the time (yes, we had wireless then) and would have been the early 50’s. Any recording of that show would be on “Kinescope” which is a 16mm movie copy of the show as it appeared on a monitor screen. I have a hunch that the inventor could not get a manufacturer for it because (although not a firearm) would have been declared a deadly weapon with rapid fire capability. For some reason, the American military was not interested in it though the British found crossbows very useful. Later in Viet Nam the crossbow was being used (mostly by Victor Charlis) but it was not a finely crafted weapon. Ironically, American troops were issued a modern, lightweight steel Tomahawk. Head and handle were all of a single drop forging process. The blade end of the head was a very handy hand-axe tool but the other end was a spike like a medieval halberd. On “MODER
