This photo of a modernized flintlock pistol showed up on Twitter recently and it made me smile -- old-school tacticool.
Jack McCain tweeted the photo of a flintlock pistol equipped with an Aimpoint optic and SureFire weapon light.
"This ... appeals to me," McCain wrote.
Happy 4th.
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