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The Matchlock Gun was created in 1941.
The ISBN of The Matchlock Gun is 0-698-11680-1.
A type of a gun.
Matchlock
Wheel lock
The matchlock gun won the Newbery Medal in 1942. It is a historical novel that takes place during the early 18th century in the United States.
matchlock
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.
Most guns were matchlock muskets.
IF theonly gun was a smoothbore matchlock pistol, you would think it was a pretty good gun. The WORST gun would have to be a gun that was unsafe to fire- any kind, any make, any caliber. If the gun is not safe to fire, then you have a pretty poorly designed club.If I had to choose between wheelock and matchlock I would put the matchlock at the bottom of the list only because of reliability, other than that I would agree with the first answer
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
the wheel lock rifle, although very expensive and used mostly by aristocracy to go hunting. the actual battlefield replacement of the matchlock was the flintlock rifle around the period c.1660-c.1700