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Firing Mechanisms |
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Matchlock |
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Matchlocks The simplest and earliest gun-lock |
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Matchlock |
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Snaphaunce |
Snaphaunce |
Snaphaunce |
Snaphaunce Locks
The snaphaunce can be considered the direct |
Mainspring |
Battery Spring |
Cockscrew |
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"English" Lock Another innovation was to combine the |
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Although these different types of gun firing mechanism plates may be looked at as a progression of improvements in the design, and each development did occur at succeeding times —by the 17th century in Virginia all of these types may have been in use at the same place, or in different places at the same time. |
Updated August 9, 2021