News Guns that Developed and Evolved in 1845

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News Guns that Developed and Evolved in 1845

This was one of biggest years for the development of guns. During this year a French inventor named Louis Nicolas Flobert created four different types of guns to be fired indoors and outdoors. The four different types were Flobert gun, Gallery gun, Saloon gun, and finally the Parlor gun. These guns were made to fit a small bullet for the first time. Most of these guns were developed pretty much the same. There are plenty more guns that were already evolved such as the musket that got developed during this time as well. During this time, many people were using guns for different reasons some just for entertainment and some were being created for other reasons such as war. There were many rifles as well that had evolved, the examples of the rifles are in my collection. The rifles all fired one bullet at a time and were very popular for army members and were used plenty in the war. The guns were interesting because they are so much different than the guns used today but there isn't much of difference in the engineering used to make them.

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