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Rifles from the 1730s were muzzleloading flintlocks- you poured gunpowder down the barrel, and used a ramrod to push a lead ball down the barrel. When you fired it a piece of flint rock scraped sparks from the frizzen, and the sparks ignited the gunpowder.

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