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"The legal challenge and public controversy forced New York to decide not to purchase modern rifles for the National Guard.  Instead New York accepted free obsolete single shot Springfield Model 1884 Trapdoor rifles from the U.S. Government to replace its obsolete single shot Rolling Block rifles.  When New York National Guard units were deployed to Cuba during the Spanish-American War, they carried the old black powder .45-70 Trapdoors into combat against the Spanish who were armed with modern Mauser bolt action repeating rifles."

So politics got in the way again and the guard from New York had to go with a black powder cartridge rifle, causing some possible unnecessary casualties that may have been avoided if they would have had a smokeless powder type rifle."