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A firearm is a barreled ranged weapon that inflicts damage on targets by launching one or more projectiles driven by rapidly expanding high-pressure gas produced by exothermic combustion ( deflagration) of a chemical propellant, historically black powder, now smokeless powder.
- Hand Cannon
The hand cannon (simplified Chinese: 火铳; traditional...
- List of firearms
List of firearms. This is an extensive list of small arms...
- History of the firearm
The history of firearms begins in 10th-century China, when...
- List of most-produced firearms
This amounts to "120.5 firearms for every 100 residents."...
- Handgun
A handgun is a firearm designed to be usable with only one...
- Cartridge (firearms)
Design Purpose. The cartridge was invented specifically for...
- Hand Cannon
The "true gun" appears to have emerged in late 1200s China, around 300 years after the appearance of the fire lance. Although the term "gun" postdates the invention of firearms, historians have applied it to the earliest firearms such as the Heilongjiang hand cannon of 1288 or the vase shaped European cannon of 1326. Classic gun
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