Earliest known drawing of any kind of hand gun. From an etching dated c. 1420, by Israel von Mechlin.

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Earliest known drawing of any kind of hand gun. From an etching dated c. 1420, by Israel von Mechlin, showing the devil shooting at Christ in a scene of the resurrection. From The British Army: It's Origins, Progress and Equipment, published 1868.

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