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  2. Heilongjiang hand cannon - Wikipedia

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    The Heilongjiang hand cannon or hand-gun is a bronze hand cannon [1] manufactured no later than 1288 and is the world's oldest confirmed surviving firearm. [2] It weighs 3.55 kg (7.83 pounds) and is 34 centimeters (13.4 inches) long.

  3. Archaeologists Accidentally Discovered the Oldest Gun Ever ...

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    Archaeologists uncovered a 480-year-old gun in Arizona. It’s now considered the oldest firearm ever found within the continental United States.

  4. Hand cannon - Wikipedia

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    One of the oldest surviving weapons of this type is the "Loshult gun", a 10 kg (22 lb) Swedish example from the mid-14th century. In 1999, a group of British and Danish researchers made a replica of the gun and tested it using four period-accurate mixes of gunpowder, firing both 1.88 kg (4.1 lb) arrows and 184 g (6.5 oz) lead balls with 50 g (1 ...

  5. Blast from the past: Researchers discover oldest US gun ...

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    The bronze cannon, or wall gun, is associated with the first European expedition of the Southwest, and was found on the floor of a Spanish stone-and-adobe building in southern Arizona, near the ...

  6. How archaeologists dug up the oldest gun ever found in the US ...

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    The oldest gun found in the continental U.S. makes for a great headline, and Seymour has been besieged by media since the paper was published. The superlative attached to the cannon is of course ...

  7. History of the firearm - Wikipedia

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    The oldest surviving firearm is the Heilongjiang hand cannon dated to 1288, which was discovered in modern-day Acheng District where the History of Yuan records that battles were fought. Li Ting, a military commander of Jurchen descent, led foot soldiers armed with hand cannons to suppress the rebellion of the Eastern Christian Mongol Prince ...

  8. Ruelle Foundry - Wikipedia

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    The 50-pounder was a regular gun that actually fired a 50 pound-weighing bullet. I.e. it was not a 60 or 80-pdr shell gun that fired a much lighter shot that only had the circumference of a 60 or 80 pound bullet. [11] The first rifled guns of the French Navy were the 16 cm modèle 1855 gun and the modèle 1858-1860 guns. [12]

  9. 1288 - Wikipedia

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    The oldest-known bronze handgun in the world is dated to this year, a Chinese gun found in Acheng District, that was once used to suppress the rebellion of the Mongol prince Nayan. [ 14 ] Births

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