{"id":217589,"date":"2026-06-12T17:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T17:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/217589\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T17:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T17:11:10","slug":"the-pennsylvania-long-rifle-the-gun-that-won-the-american-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/217589\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pennsylvania long rifle: The gun that won the American Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dek\">Fox News&#8217; Douglas Kennedy presents a historical report on the Pennsylvania long rifle, highlighting its pivotal role in the American Revolution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dek long-dek\">Douglas Kennedy explores the historical significance of the Pennsylvania Long Rifle, detailing how this American innovation became a decisive &#8220;wonder weapon&#8221; in the Revolutionary War. Expert John Kolar and National Parks Service Historian Garrett Cloer explain its superior accuracy (up to 200 yards) compared to British smoothbore muskets. The rifle&#8217;s effectiveness in battles like Saratoga and Cowpens was critical for American victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fox News&#8217; Douglas Kennedy presents a historical report on the Pennsylvania long rifle, highlighting its pivotal role in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[82171,2032,82170,28,30,29,420],"class_list":["post-217589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-breaking-news-videos","tag-fox-news","tag-news-videos","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}