improved but also been coming up with many different makes and models.

The next major weapon technology was in 1640 was the flintlock gun. This gun solved the problem for shooters. For most of the guns that existed, they had covering over the powder that you had to remove manually. The Flintlock fixed this, by have the cover fly back making a spark automatically. That design lasted for almost 2 centuries without changes.

The Civil War was when they introduced the Spencer repeating guns.(see appendix J) They used cartridges that shot 7 rounds every 15 seconds. The army didn’t want to use them because they thought the soldiers would shoot too much, constantly needing more ammunition. But in 1863, President Lincoln test-fired the Spencer and approved them.(Hallowell, 2012) His approval made the army buy 107,372 Spencer repeating rifles. This gun became the main use of the Civil War.

The Winchester rifles comes into production in 1873. Then in 1887 the first use of a shotgun(see appendix K) was released by Winchester. They made the first automatic rifle.(Hallowell, 2012) This is still used today as sport and a hobby.

Around 1914, the Germans got their hands on the machine gun plans. They first designed the machine gun after they faced one in a German war. The Germans gave two machine guns per battalion group in their military.(Duffy, 2009) Although they didn’t start doing this until around 1915, when the british started doing the same.

The Thompson Submachine Gun or Tommy gun(see appendix L), was invented by General John T. Thompson. This was the first hand held machine gun ever. Thompson wanted to create the Tommy Gun to try and end the First World War. But the first shipment landed in Europe the day after the war on November 11, 1918.(Bellis, 2015)

In 1930 the Italian army made the Breda Modello 30.(see appendix M) British armies created the Bresal Light Machine Gun(see appendix N) in 1940. The ALFA 44(see appendix O) was created in 1944 by the Spanish military. The AAT-52(see appendix P) (Arme Automatique Transformable) was introduced to military in 1952 by the French army. In 1979 the Italian military made the Beretta AS70 LMG assault rifle.(see appendix Q) Then the American military made the Ares Defence Strike 5.56(see appendix R) “Advanced Weapons System” in 2002. Then in 2012 the American military made the Ares Defence Ares-16 Small Arms Family.(see appendix S) (Staff, 2015)

Since gunpowder has been invented by the Chinese, the whole world has altered it, improved it, and used it for good and bad. They have been used not only for guns but for many other items. Like for fireworks, they use gunpowder as well. Bombs of course use gunpowder for their base of explosion. There are many other iem