1400 — 1950
Timeline
The archive's firearms through time, from 1400 to 1950, grouped by era.
1400 – 1499
Late Middle Ages
- 1409 Ming hand cannon
- 1475 Matchlock arquebus
1500 – 1649
Renaissance
- 1530 Wheellock pistol
- 1543 Tanegashima
- 1550 Spanish musket
- 1600 Toradar
1650 – 1814
Early Modern & Napoleonic era
- 1650 Blunderbuss
- 1722 Brown Bess
- 1730 Kentucky rifle
- 1770 Duelling pistol
- 1776 Ferguson rifle
- 1777 Charleville musket
- 1800 Baker rifle
1815 – 1870
Industrial Revolution
- 1819 M1819 Hall rifle
- 1836 Colt Paterson
- 1841 Dreyse needle gun
- 1847 Colt Walker
- 1848 Sharps rifle
- 1851 Colt 1851 Navy
- 1853 Pattern 1853 Enfield
- 1860 Spencer carbine
- 1860 Henry rifle
- 1861 Springfield Model 1861
- 1862 Gatling gun
- 1866 Chassepot rifle
- 1867 Remington Rolling Block
1871 – 1913
Age of Empire
- 1871 Martini–Henry
- 1871 Mauser Model 1871
- 1873 Colt Single Action Army
- 1873 Winchester 1873
- 1884 Maxim gun
- 1886 Lebel Model 1886
- 1891 Carcano
- 1891 Mosin–Nagant
- 1893 Spanish Mauser Model 1893
- 1895 Lee–Enfield
- 1895 Nagant M1895 revolver
- 1896 Mauser C96
- 1897 Winchester Model 1897
- 1898 Gewehr 98
- 1905 Arisaka Type 38
- 1908 Luger P08
- 1908 MG 08
- 1911 Colt M1911
- 1912 Vickers machine gun
- 1913 Lewis gun
1914 – 1918
First World War
- 1915 Chauchat
- 1915 Webley Mk VI
- 1918 Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR)
- 1918 MP 18
1919 – 1938
Interwar period
- 1921 Thompson submachine gun
- 1925 Nambu Type 14
- 1926 ZB vz. 26
- 1933 Tokarev TT-33
- 1935 Browning Hi-Power
- 1936 M1 Garand
- 1938 Walther P38
1939 – 1950