1630 - The first true flintlock. The flintlock solved ... This period produced a number of single-purpose firearms. The forerunner of modern shotguns was the fowling piece, developed specifically ...

A black powder organization is looking to preserve flintlock rifle hunting in Pa. through a new expanded deer season. Here's ...

Bill Harriman, firearms specialist on BBC One's Antiques Roadshow, told Making History that a flintlock is a mechanism attached to a firearm which produces its own sparks, doing what the human ...