A rifle musket is a musket that has a rifled barrel. Until the mid 19th century, the standard infantry weapon of most of the world's armies was a smoothbore, long-barreled, muzzleloading musket with...
Depends on how you want to define "Type". There are muzzle loading guns that use black powder and a lead ball, and breech loaders (use cartridges). There are rim fires, like the .22 LR, and center...
Muskets have smooth bores and rifles have rifling - spiral grooves to make the bullet spin. Rifles have longer range and better accuracy. Both were originally muzzleloaders, but rifles eventually...
They are both guns but the way they shoot are different. A flintlock gun works by striking a slab of steel with a piece of flint whose sparks light the gunpowder under the steel slab which lights it...