Historical timeline of the development of modern weapons starting at 1364 with the first recorded use of a firearm and ending in 1892 with the introduction of automatic handguns. 1364 - First recorded ...

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A gun corps member fires a blank shot with a large matchlock rifle in the city of Oita on Dec. 12, 2021. (Mainichi/Yuki Imano) Gun corps members fire blank shots with matchlock rifles in the city of ...

You don’t have to be interested in guns or firearms to dip into Robert Elgood’s The Maharaja of Jodhpur’s Guns (Niyogi Books, Rs 4,500). It is, among others, studded with several etymological delights ...

Guns and America were born around the same time and grew up together. Like feuding cousins, their histories have been linked ever since. Often helpful in American history — and often harmful — the ...