When the man asked his friend for a gun to commit suicide, he gave him a matchlock so he could have time to call the police.
Matchlock and flintlock muskets and shotguns.
The Matchlock Gun was created in 1941.
The ISBN of The Matchlock Gun is 0-698-11680-1.
At the time of Miles Standish, the standard firearm was a large caliber matchlock musket. This used a slow smoldering length of cord (the match) to ignite a powder charge, and was replaced by the flintlock. This is a link to an article on the matchlock musket- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matchlock
Muzzle loaders. Starting to make the change from matchlock to various flintlocks.
If you mean the US Civil war, matchlock guns were NOT used. They had long been replaced by newer designs. The standard rifle at the start of the war was a caplock. By the end of the war, breech loading firearms using metallic cartridges were in use.
As a very rough guide you had the pike, the matchlock musket, the sword and the cannon.
By hand.
A type of a gun.
The Chinese did in 1368.
Matchlock
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