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First recorded use of a firearm shooter lit wicks by hand that ingnited gunpowder that was loaded into the gun barrel.
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Hand guns are known across Europe.
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The first weapon that could be carried, loaded, and discharged by a single man was in the 1400s knows as the matchlock.
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The gun experienced its first major evolution with the discovery of rifling (putting grooves in the barrel of a gun to improve accuracy).
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Efforts toward a simpler, less expensive, and more reliable gun led to the next significant step in firearms: the flintlock. The flintlock was also the customary firearm of the young United States and was instrumental in our battle for independence.
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Firearms played an important part in the colonization of America. The British banned firearms and gunpowder and used violence to confiscate firearms and gunpowder from the Americas. The Americas had enough of the British Leadership and fought to declare it's independence from them. On July 4, 1776 American Colonies declared their Independence.
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"The Americans objected to the British Empire restricting their trade and were eager for battle to prove their independence from the British Empire. "
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The Civil War (1861 to 1865) started because of disagreements between the North and the South.
