The matchlock shown here was made around 1640, and is typical of the muskets used by militia in Colonial ... flintlock pictured here is a typical British "Brown Bess" musket. Marks on the gun ...
Bill Harriman, firearms specialist on BBC One's Antiques Roadshow, told Making History that a flintlock is a mechanism ... with the muzzle of the gun pointed well away. The firer would then ...