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Guns began with the Chinese discovering gunpowder. They started off with just rockets filled with gunpowder and tied to bamboo sticks. They soon recognized the power of the gunpowder alone.
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Chinese Fire Lance. It was a spear. Or lance, coated in gunpowder. It could act as a flamethrower, and it could launch projectiles. It was a bamboo tube with gunpowder inside, that could be loaded with projectile or darts that when the gunpowder was ignited would shoot the projectile out. When an enemy saw how effective this was, they started their own gunpowder and gun design.
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Before the matchlock was invented, guns had to be manually lit by holding a lit match into the touch hole. This would start the reaction that propelled the bullet down the barrel.
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First mechanical firearm. When lowered, the hammer lit a wick, which then reacted with the black powder.
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The process of putting notches in the barrel so the bullet comes out spinning, improving accuracy and aerodynamic.
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About a hundred years later, guns were innovated. These guns were called wheel lock guns. Wicks were now replaced the wheel lock that generated a spark for igniting the gunpowder.
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The first shotgun was a simple rifle type gun, but was loaded with "shot", -a bunch of little bullets/pebbles/gravel- instead of one small round ball.
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Flintlock weapons open the flash pan and ignited it with a spark. They are said to be invented around 1600, although the exact date is unknown.
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Invented in 1814, by Elisha Haydon Collier, then revolutionized by Samuel Colt in 1836 with a percussion cap, revolvers use a spinning cylinder to load automatically after shot, resulting anywhere from 5-8 shots.
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The first sniper rifle was simply a high-power rifle that could shoot up to 800 yards.
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Augustus Demodion made a shot that held a bunch of smaller bullets and was more effective then gravel and small rocks which was used before.
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These, the colt revolvers, were the first mass-produced, multi-shot, revolving firearms.
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Samuel Colt revolutionizes the revolver with a percussion cap, resulting in the first "true" revolver.
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The rifle had grooves cut into the inside of the barrel causing the bullet to spin thus reducing air resistance, increasing range and stability, greatly improving accuracy.
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The first pointed bullet had a hollow base that expanded when it was fired, allowing it to grip the rifiling, along the inside of the barrel of the gun.
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The Gatling gun was designed by the American inventor Dr. Richard J. Gatling in 1861 and patented November 4, 1862. Some argue that this was not a real machine gun because it was required a person to crank it to make it shoot.
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The mechanism of the Maxim gun employed one of the earliest recoil-operated firing systems in history. The idea is that the energy from recoil acting on the breech block is used to eject each spent cartridge and insert the next one, instead of a hand-operated mechanism. Maxim's earliest designs used a 360-degree rotating cam to reverse the movement of the block, but this was later simplified to a toggle lock.
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This innovation was a gun that featured a removable, separate magazine in the grip of the gun.
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this gun was in testing in 1906. It has over 2 million copies of it self and it was designed for world war 2.
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The M2 Machine Gun or Browning .50 Caliber Machine Gun is a heavy machine gun designed toward the end of World War I by John Browning.
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The Stg-44 was the first assault rifle, invented in 1944 in Nazi Germany. It had a rate of fire of 500-600 rpm. Modern assault rifles (such as the SA80, Ak-47 & the futuristic XM-29), have repeatedly advanced in technology with improved accuracy, stability, rpm or reliability.
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The ak47 was made by the Russians. It was introduced in the Cold War. People did not know wha it was at the time.
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the M16 was invented by the air force for attacks and was used as the primary weapon in the Vietnam War.
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The AA 12 is gas powered and is used for close quarters like on a street or in a Jungle
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The red dot sight can be mounted to a gun at any distance from the person because distance does not affect the use of the sight. This also allows the sight to be used with heavy recoil weapons. This allowed for the user to see exactly where the bullet will strike the target.
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The M4 carbine was used when The U.S.A went to panama and is still used today.
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The m110 sass was first used in Afghanistan and mostly used by Airborne Rangers. At the time it was voted best sniper rifle.
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This gun is very unique. It's range is two football fields. And the user can modify it for their mission.
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This gun very highly gas powered. It is a one man portable weapon. It's range is 800 meters.
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