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  • Obviously, those would have to be {the kind of arms} in 1791, when the Bill of Rights was passed; the musket, the wheel-lock, the flint lock, the 13th century Chinese hand canon.

    Jackson Williams: On Guns, Scalia is Right For Once, and Obama Agrees 2010

  • It is not a conventional matchlock, as historians have written, but a complex and very costly arquebuse à rouet, a wheel-lock arquebus.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • A very short actually more like a long journal article book on the impact of the wheel-lock pistol.

    Archive 2008-02-01 jmnlman 2008

  • It is not a conventional matchlock, as historians have written, but a complex and very costly arquebuse à rouet, a wheel-lock arquebus.

    'Champlain's Dream: The European Founding of North America' 2008

  • A very short actually more like a long journal article book on the impact of the wheel-lock pistol.

    The Awful End of Prince William the Silent: The First Assassination of a Head of State with a Handgun by Lisa Jardine jmnlman 2008

  • The technology that produced the arquebuse à rouet also led to the development of wheel-lock pistols, which were larger than modern handguns but small enough to be hidden in clothing.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • It is not a conventional matchlock, as historians have written, but a complex and very costly arquebuse à rouet, a wheel-lock arquebus.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • In 1584 a wheel-lock pistol was employed to kill William the Silent in the Netherlands and to murder Protestant leaders in France.4

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • In 1584 a wheel-lock pistol was employed to kill William the Silent in the Netherlands and to murder Protestant leaders in France.4

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • The technology that produced the arquebuse à rouet also led to the development of wheel-lock pistols, which were larger than modern handguns but small enough to be hidden in clothing.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

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