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In 1870 Italy adopted the Swiss designed 'Vetterli' bolt action system for their army's official firearm. To save costs though they left the tubular magazine of the Swiss design out of their model. Which took away the greatest advantage of the Swiss Vetterli, relatively rapid repeating fire. It wasn't until 1887 that Italy took action to adopt a magazine rifle, and it did this by simply equipping the 1870 rifles with a 4-round magazine designed by one General Vitali.

Lets say that the Italians created an equivalent to the Vitali modification from the start. With a box magazine, albeit a novel idea at the time, in order to use less material than what would be needed for a tubular mag. How might this alter Italy's history? Might they conquer more territories?
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