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The first battle is a bloodbath, with the men picked off by musket fire almost at random.
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The new United States needed muskets, cannons, ammunition, uniforms, cloth, food and credit.
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The birth of ‘gunpowder warfare’ can be traced back to the 15th century and the invention of the matchlock gun, the first mechanical firing device.
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The autopsy determined that Wiley's cause of death was a shotgun wound to the torso, according to Crump.
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In a photo from a court document, a 12-gauge shotgun is shown inside a Rocky Ford residence inhabited by Mario Rocha.
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Smoke billowed from his flintlock and Rhoades didn’t see where the buck ran after the shot.
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Modern gun technologies are far, far more deadly than the one-shot flintlocks of the 18th century—shouldn’t that matter?
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With feverish speed and characteristic blunderbuss, President Donald Trump has given the federal government – and himself – unprecedented control over private economic decisions.
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Trump would also stop treating the Europeans as enemies with his blunderbuss tariffs.
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To put that in perspective, when Beretta started making arquebus barrels, Michelangelo was still working in Rome.
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Both tanks mount 120-125 mm smoothbore cannons capable of engaging armored vehicles at long range.
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At least three states — Hawaii, Ohio and North Dakota — treat a smoothbore musket the same as an AK-47 or AR-15.
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He has been charged with first-degree murder and felony firearm.
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Law enforcement later searched two locations in connection with the investigation into Hidrogo including a storage facility in Fort Worth where officers found 244 kilograms of meth with a purity level of 100 percent and more firearms.
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“Firelock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/firelock. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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