“In the 1980s, we went to the current rules where we say the gun has to be built prior to 1800 or be a reproduction of something along those lines. It’s flintlock ignition only, single barrel.

A set of historic 300-year-old guns have finally returned to their Scottish hometown after years spent in a private ...

In this weapon, two locks are combined in one mechanism, to give each barrel separate ... The flintlock pictured here is a typical British "Brown Bess" musket. Marks on the gun indicate that ...

It was a repeating flintlock musket that could fire up to ... It was a fully automatic pattern-fired, seven barrel gun that ...

The loading process meant that the gun would be able to shoot ... not be possible to overcharge the barrel. The Brown Bess was one of the best-known flintlock guns in military use.