List of firearms before the 20th century
This is an extensive list of small arms made before the year 1900 and including the first functioning firearms ever invented. The list is not comprehensive; create an entry for listings having none; multiple names are acceptable as cross-references, so that redirecting hyperlinks can be established for them.
A
- Ager machine gun
- APX 1895 (France - Gatling Gun - 8mm Lebel)
- Arquebus (Dutch - Rifle - 1400s)
B
- Baily machine gun
- Bajouzutsu revolver (Japan - Pistol - 1800s?)
- Bira gun (Nepal - Machine Gun - 1896)
- Blunderbuss (Dutch - Shotgun - 1700s)
- Brown Bess (UK - Rifle - 1722)
- Burnside carbine (US - Rifle - 1857)
C
- Caliver (UK - Rifle - 1600s)
- Chamelot Delvigne French 1873 (French - Revolver - 1873)
- Charleville (French - Rifle - 1770s)
- Colt 1851 Navy (US - Revolver 1851)
- Colt Army Model 1860 (US - Revolver - 1860)
- Colt Dragoon Revolver (US - Revolver - 1848)
- Colt Frontier Six-Shooter (US - Revolver- )
- Colt Lightning Carbine (US - Carbine - 1884)
- Colt M1861 Navy (US - Revolver - 1861)
- Colt revolving rifle (US - Repeating Rifle - 1855)
- Colt Single Action Army (US - Revolver - 1873)
- Confederate Revolving Cannon
E
- Enfield 1853 Rifled Musket (UK - Rifle - 1853)
- Enfield Revolver (UK - Revolver - 1880)
F
G
- Gatling Gun (US - Machine Gun - 1862)
- Gorgas machine gun
H
- Hinawa revolver (Japan - Pistol - 1800s?)
- Henry Repeating Rifle (US - Rifle - 1850s-1866)
K
- Kropatschek (Austrian - Rifle - 1881)
L
- Lebel 1886 (French - Rifle - 1886)
- LeMat Revolver (CS - Revolver - 1856)
- Lowell machine gun
M
- Maxim Gun (UK - Machine Gun - 1883)
- Mitrailleuse Gatling modèle APX 1895 (France - Gatling Gun - 1895)
- M1870 Gasser (Austria-Hungary - Revolver - 1870)
- M1879 Reichsrevolver (German Empire - Revolver - 1879)
- Steyr Mannlicher M1894 (Austria-Hungary - Pistol - 1894)
N
- Nordenfelt gun (Sweden - Machine Gun)
P
R
- Rast-Gasser M1898 (Austria-Hungary - Revolver - 1898)
- Remington Model 1858 (US - Revolver - 1862)
- Ribauldequin (UK - 1339)
- Robertson machine gun
S
- Salvator-Dormus M1893 (Austria-Hungary - Heavy Machine Gun - 8x50mmR)
- Schmidt M1882 (Switzerland - Revolver)
- Schofield Model 3 (US - Revolver - 1875)
- Sharps Rifle (US - Rifle - 1848)
- Schwarzlose Model 1898 (Austria-Hungary - Pistol - 1898)
- Schönberger-Laumann (Austria-Hungary - Pistol - 1892)
- Smith & Wesson Model 1 (US - Revolver - 1857)
- Smith & Wesson No. 3 Revolver (US - Revolver - 1870)
- Spencer Rifle (US - Rifle - 1860)
- Springfield Model 1795 Musket (US - Rifle - 1795)
- Springfield Model 1855 (US - Rifle - 1855)
- Springfield Model 1861 (US - Rifle - 1861)
- Springfield Model 1863 (US - Rifle - 1863)
- Springfield Model 1865 (US - Rifle - 1865)
- Springfield Model 1866 (US - Rifle - 1866)
- Springfield Model 1868 (US - Rifle - 1868)
- Springfield Model 1871 (US - Rifle - 1871)
- Springfield Model 1873 (US - Rifle - 1873)
T
- Tanegashima revolver - (Japan - Pistol - 1800s?)
- Tu Huo Qiang (Chinese - Rifle - 1259)
W
- Walker Colt (US - Revolver -1847)
- Wilder machine gun
- Winchester Model 1887 (US - Shotgun - 1887)
- Winchester Model 1894 (US - Rifle - 1894)
- Winchester Rifle (US - Rifle - 1873)