Who invented the Gun?

Focus Question: Who invented the gun?

Richard Gatling

• in the late 15th century the Ottoman empire used firearms as part of its regular infantry. The first successful rapid fire firearm is the Gatling Gun invented by Richard Gatling and fielded by the Union forces during the American Civil War in the 1860s.

How Guns help people?

• Guns can help in many ways but they can also be a hazard.
• Guns can help in many ways like stopping someone from harming other people or stopping robbery's.
• But then guns can be harmful and they can be very dangerous for example you can get shot in a robbery or shot for no reason.

Firearm

• A firearm is a portable gun, being a barreled weapon that launches one or more projectiles often driven by the action of an explosive force. The first primitive firearms were invented in 13th century China when the one-person-portable fire lance was combined with projectiles.

AK-47

• The AK-47 (also known as the Kalashnikov AK or in Russian slang Kalash) is a selective fire (semiautomatic and automatic) gas-operated assault rifle developed in the Soviet Union by Mikhail Kalashnikov. It is officially known in the Soviet documentation as Avtomat Kalashnikov.

M4 CARBINE

• The M4 carbine is a shorter and lighter variant of the M16A2 assault rifle. The M4 is a 5.56×45mm NATO air-cooled direct impingement gas-operated magazine fed carbine.

M16

• The M16 rifle, officially designated Rifle, Caliber 5.56 mm, M16, is a United States military adaptation of the ArmaLite AR-15 rifle. The original M16 was a select-fire, 5.56×45mm rifle with a 20 round magazine.

AR-15

• The AR-15 is a lightweight intermediate cartridge magazine fed air-cooled Armalite Rifle with a rotating lock bolt actuated by a piston within the bolt carrier or by conventional long short stroke piston operation.

I've got two videos of how guns work. They a short FYI.

Bibliography

• www.wikipedia.com
• www.stagarms.com
• www.m16artspace.com
• www.modernfirearms.com
• www.colt.com

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