In becoming “The Gun That Won The West,” the Winchester ... $30 for the full-stocked musket and $35 for the half-magazine Express Rifle, the prices were 10 percent to 20 percent higher than ...

A wall gun is considered a beefed-up musket and got its name as it was often ... largely because of the smoothbore nature of the barrels. The 480-year-old gun was likely built in the early 1500s ...

CONCORD – Archaeologists in Concord, Massachusetts found five musket balls they say were fired on April 19, 1775 at Minute Man National Historic Park during the event famously known as "The Shot ...

The flintlock pictured here is a typical British "Brown Bess" musket. Marks on the gun indicate that it was used by German mercenaries during the American Revolution. 1637 - First use of firearms ...