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Yes they did.

The most common gun was the smoothbore flintlock musket.

Single-shot pistols were also popular.

Rifles weren't as popular because they were expensive and took longer to load.

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Yes, they did. It is one of the major reasons that colonists were militarily superior to Native Americans.

Here is an example of a gun from the early 1700s:

http://gun-sword.stores.Yahoo.net/geea17flpi.html

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