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Originally Posted by copeab
You need to have smokeless powder for automatic weapons. Black powder is a crippling limitation on an automatic weapon (see the history of the Maxim machine gun as a clear example).
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Can you provide a citation or example? Ian McCollum claims that the prototype Maxim gun was quite reliable, and the Maxim 1pdr Pom-pom used black powder, as well. And I'm not aware of any great reputation for unreliability associated with with either of those designs.