In this weapon, two locks are combined in one mechanism, to give each barrel separate ... The flintlock pictured here is a typical British "Brown Bess" musket. Marks on the gun indicate that ...

It was a repeating flintlock musket that could fire up to ... It was a fully automatic pattern-fired, seven barrel gun that ...

Bill Harriman, firearms specialist on BBC One's Antiques Roadshow, told Making History that a flintlock is a mechanism ... with the muzzle of the gun pointed well away. The firer would then ...