1400s - The matchlock gun appears. Before the matchlock, guns were fired by holding a burning wick to a "touch hole" in the barrel igniting the powder inside. A shooter uses one hand for firing ...

TASS /. Open burning at a gunpowder plant in Russia’s Ryazan Region has been extinguished, the press service of the Emergencies Ministry told TASS on Friday. "At 09:31 a.m. (Moscow Time), open ...