Activity

A. Personalities and their contribution to the development of firearm.

Personalities Contributions
He produces the flintlock rifles in 1816
Eliphalet Remington

He invented a handheld pistol that featured a multi-firing system

Samuel Colt base on a rotating barrel with multiple chambers that could fire
bullets through a lock and spring design, and called it the Colt .45
revolver referred to as “the gun that won the west”.

Improvements including breechloading systems that allowed the

Sharps, Maynard, gunner to load the weapon from rear, rather than having to tamp it
and Burnside down from the gun’s muzzle end. Rear loading or breechloading
system have been developed. Double-Barrel Shotguns

Developed a similar model, in the henry, and patented the design

Benjamin Henry in 1860. During the Civil War, the Henry was called “the rifle you
could load in Sunday and shoot all week long.” Perhaps more
importantly, the Henry became the inspiration for the classic
Winchester rifle.
Began designing for the New Haven-base Winchester Repeating
John, Moses, Arms Company in 1883 and created a version of the rifle that
Browning incorporated a pump action. Pump, or slide-action guns feature a
mechanism where the shooter pulls back a grip on the gun’s
forearm and then pushes it forward to eject the empty shell and
reload the gun with a new shell.
He developed his semi-automatic handguns and machine guns,
Richard Gatling Indianapolis, Indiana-based Richard Gatling had already created
an earlier, more primitive version of the machine gun.

American-born British inventor, would take the machine gun to

Hirem Maxim the next level with his maxim guns. The weapon harnessed the
recoil energy from each bullet fired to eject a used cartridge and
pull in the nex one.

The advent in 1918 of the lightweight Thompson submachine

John Thompson gun, also known as the Tommy gun, would offer a hand-held
version of the deadly machine gun as one of the first portable and
fully automatic gun.
Mikhail Kalashnikov He invented the AK-47 rifle. The short-barreled weapon with
steep front-sight posts and curved magazines offered the rapid-
fire of machine guns with lighter-weight portability.

B. Important Dates

Date Events
850AD Discovery of Gunpowder
850 AD Began using gunpowder to put on brilliant firework displays
1232 Firs weapon that uses gun powered
1364 First recorded use of a firearm
1380 The word of gun powered had spread across Europe
1400 First gun - Matchlock
1509 The wheellock gun
1630 Flintlock Guns
1825 Percussion-cap Guns
1835 Developed the first mass-produce, multi-shot, revolving firearms.
1840 Pin-Fire Cartridges
1850 Produced the Shotguns
1859 Full rim-fire cartridges
1861 Gatling gun
1877 Double-action revolver
1893 Borchardt pistol
1903 First automatic rifle
1973 Winchester rifle