Why was the gun invented?

Answer 1

hunting and war

Guns were invented for the protection of life and freedom.

Well from what i see it was to kill man itself and destruction to take power but the Chinese invented the gun powder! now during the early time s of war and power and knifes and swords was the foundation of a killing tool , to kill another.we know Kane killed first, and from there it was on , So In The Book Of the Dead it says Th all should not kill, and so on with the scriptures that was written within fact .The Book was not intended for Man Itself, But Life it Self, and We didn't read it or it was forbidden not to read it where will we at today!Dead or living longer than what the book says most of the kings and wisdom people lived 500 yrs or so Like Moses He written 9 Books of The Bible, and find himself on top of a mountain and was gone for some yrs and came back down from the mountain with some stone with words written on it longed bearded gray and he was 600 years of age ,Wow that's fearsome/to do that to whom he was talking because we have not seen the man in 6 thousand yrs or man been on earth for that length of time who knows,but we are here , Now the Gun is now better and bigger and most power and can take out and entire life of foundation and area of people and why there's some answers that's has to be answered but when ever the Man Shows up .Boy somebody and everybody is GOING TO BE IN BIG Trouble! Look and at all these people died from a GUN! 1941 Germany , JEWS research it and In our time corners drugs rapping bombing child molestation same sex ! the list goes on, CRIME.Law they Kill The death penalty that's A Modern Gun ! But the Point I'm making is for you to Undersatnd that the gun can be used for Game,and Sports, thatch it;.

Answer 2

Very generally speaking, to give a person an advantage over someone with a sword. With a handgun, you could shoot an attacker with a sword or a knife while they were far enough away that you wouldn't get cut.

Answer 3

Like many military technologies, rifles are an improvement over an existing technology; in this case, the smoothbore musket.

Smoothbores were the first firearms - very simply, they were a pipe with one end closed. Gunpowder was packed down at the closed end, with the spherical ball pushed down on top. Unfortunately, in order for the ball to be able to make its way down the barrel, it had to be smaller than the inside diameter of the barrel. When the gunpowder exploded, the gas pushed the ball out; however, due to the poor fit between the bullet (really, a ball) and the barrel, the ball would bounce against the sides of the barrel while it traveled out. This resulted in a very poor ballistic path for the ball, and really, really poor accuracy.

The exact inventor of the rifle is unknown. However somewhere in the 15th century in Europe, it was noticed that the spiraling nature of the arrow significantly increased its accuracy, and that perhaps a similar effect would work for bullets. Cutting actual grooves into musket barrels happened somewhere in the late 15th century, and the result was a significant improvement in accuracy. A rifled musket could reliably hit a target 5 times the distance that a smoothbore could.

Unfortunately, in order to be effective, the lead sphere bullet had to be a tight fit, which required that it be forced down the barrel (as all muskets were muzzle-loaders, since breechloading hadn't been invented yet). This was a very laborious effort, so a smoothbore could be reloaded five or six times faster. Military commanders were not willing to give up the volume of fire potential for an increase in range, so rifles were not immediately used by any military.

Around the middle 18th century, rifles became common for use by sharpshooters and hunters (particularly in North America). Militaries still preferred the smoothbore. It was not until the invention of the Minie-ball bullet in the 1840s that the slow reload problem was fixed, and muzzleloading rifles replaced smoothbore muskets in the 1850s in militaries. The perfection of the breechloader and the fixed cartridge/bullet combination shortly after helped perfect the modern rifle.

Answer 4

1814- Elisha Collier invented a revolving flintlock pistol. Samuel Colt created the revolver as we know it today in 1835-1836.

Answer 5

Answer:For the purpose of either threatening, maiming, and/or killing.

and it gave soldiers a second choice