I always wonder what effect folks are expecting they'll produce when they make a statement like this.
It doesn't answer the technical question asked.
It doesn't speak to the effectiveness or ineffectiveness of the technique described.
It demands its own terms apply to all situations, any where, any time, ad infinitum, which is unreasonable and truly quite impossible.
And it casts a tone of aspersion against anyone to whom those terms do not, might not, or cannot apply at any time or in any situation falling between the invention of the rifle and whenever this universe collapses back to a singularity. (Though, to be honest, as the possibility does exist for a multiverse, and/or an infinite loop of expanding and collapsing universes, the negative vibe may extend even further. Even MUCH further than that!)
Is there some instructive upside?