2018年3月11日 · In 1718, James Puckle invented and patented what was essentially a machine gun. According to Wikipedia, the Puckle gun “had a pre-loaded cylinder which held 11 charges and could fire 63 shots in seven minutes [9 shots per minute]—this at a time when the standard soldier’s musket could at best be loaded and fired three times per minute ...

2015年7月26日 · The Girardoni (also spelled Girandoni) air rifle was a very advanced design adopted in 1780 by the Austrian Army. While the standard arm of the day was a single-shot flintlock, the...

2013年4月17日 · Several of the state constitutions protected the right of the militia to be armed, which modern gun-rights advocates cite as evidence that owning guns was considered as fundamental to liberty...

The Nock gun was a seven-barrelled flintlock smoothbore firearm used by the Royal Navy during the early stages of the Napoleonic Wars. It is a type of volley gun adapted for ship-to-ship fighting, but was limited in its use because of the powerful recoil and eventually discontinued.

At the beginning of the Revolution, the army relied on soldiers to bring weapons from home, including hunting guns, militia arms and outdated martial weapons from the French and Indian War. American soldiers also carried weapons captured from the enemy in the field and reissued to Continental and state troops.

The swivel gun was a small cannon named for its mechanism of attachment. It was about the only 18th-century gun that was not a “crew-served” weapon, although its effectiveness was multiplied when manned by more than the gunner. Once mounted, almost always on a fixed base (as the block of wood shown below) it may be pointed quickly to any ...

Road to American Liberty - 1700 to 1780 Sponsored by Dr. William and Collette N. Roberts The flintlock firearms of the mid-18 th Century, including the types of guns used in the Revolutionary War, and French and Indian War, along with some experimental concepts well ahead of their time.

2015年9月1日 · According Robert Churchill, his survey of the “printed session laws” of the thirteen colonies “pertaining to gun regulation”, verified assertions made by other scholars in that “hundreds of individual statutes regulated the possession and use of guns in colonial and early national America”.

2019年9月27日 · In the mid to late 1700s several people were trying to invent a reliable repeating firearm. The military wanted such an arm, as long as it was reliable. The problem was, the gunpowder of the day was what we know today as black powder.

Thomas Blomefield became Inspector of Artillery, in 1780. Between 1782 and 1785 his department carried out a general reproof of ordnance, he rejected nearly half of them. In 1787 cast iron guns of Blomefield's own design were made. He made three significant alterations to the Armstrong design.