When was the gun invented?

In A.D. 1 132, a military strategist in the Southern Song Dynasty invented a musket, which is the earliest tubular firearm in the world military history and can be called the originator of modern tubular firearms.

By the end of the Southern Song Dynasty (1259), people in Shouchun Prefecture had created a musket, which used giant bamboo as the barrel and fired bullets (including black powder, ceramic tiles, broken iron, stones and so on). ). When detonating, the flame is ejected from the muzzle, and the bullet flies out, scattering and killing the opponent. Although it can be regarded as a shotgun, it has nothing to do with modern shotgun.

Extended data:

The ancestor of the gun is the firedoor gun. As the earliest metal tube-shaped musket, the early small-sized ware and so on all belong to the firedoor musket. Firegate guns usually need two people to fire, which has low hit rate, troublesome operation and low firing efficiency.

Rifle changes: Firegate gun, matchlock gun, wheel firing gun, flintlock gun, firing gun, barrel gun-renju gun, crossbow gun, machine gun, semi-automatic rifle, submachine gun and automatic rifle (assault rifle).

Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Gun