This is every rifle the Marine Corps has issued to Marines in the service's 250-year history, from muskets to M4s.

On the grounds of the present-day Alexandria, Va., courthouse, an interesting Model 1816 Springfield musket was found, muzzle-down, in an abandoned privy during archaeological studies prior to the ...

The Charleville musket was a widely used firearm during the American Revolutionary War. It was a flintlock musket with a .69 caliber and had a length of approximately 60 inches.

Lexington History Museums curator Jesse Hilton recently showed off a collection of historic items, including this flintlock musket. It belonged to John Munroe, one of the local residents who fought in ...

JIM WATSON // Getty Images From flintlock muskets to AR-15s: A history of guns in America Assault rifles hang on the wall for sale at Blue Ridge Arsenal in Chantilly, Virginia.

The flintlock pictured here is a typical British "Brown Bess" musket. Marks on the gun indicate that it was used by German mercenaries during the American Revolution.

Organizers of a canceled Civil War re-enactment blamed New York's new gun laws, which they interpret to mean that period re-enactors carrying muskets could be charged with a felony.

Soldiers for both armies carried small arms, mostly muskets, pistols, and rifles. Of those small arms, muskets dominated the Revolutionary War battlefield.

Flintlock, as you mentioned, would fire about a .63, .64 musket ball. The other reason why they wanted these guns is to get as many troops as possible that were firing the same caliber musket ball.

Close-up of the lock plate on a 1794 flintlock musket attributed to Mattias Schroyer, a Taneytown gunsmith. The extremely rare musket came from Dan Hartzler's firearms collection. Courtesy of Doug ...

Flintlock muskets Pair of Flintlock Pistols made for Christian Ernst. Appearing for the first time in 1630, the flintlock musket introduced an improved ignition method to existing firearm mechanisms.