Originally Posted By: PeteM
...Trade guns are a different breed. In the 1930's Belgium was producing black powder percussion guns for the Congo trade. The Congo was their African colony (and a point of shame in their history).



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Also noteworthy that the Belgians were producing and selling/providing technology to the natives which was decades out of date and decidedly inferior to the firepower the colonizers wielded.

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