Where did the first guns come from?

Question

not where gun powder comes from but the first firearm.

Answer 1

Wiki says the Chinese first invented gunpowder and then the cannon.

Gunpowder and flame projector tubes were first invented and used in military combat in China before the technology was transmitted elsewhere, with advanced technological innovation during the Chinese Song Dynasty (AD 960–1279). The cannon later arrived in the Muslim world in the 13th century, where the explosive hand cannon was invented. These then reached the Iberian Peninsula, with gunpowder described in Europe by Roger Bacon in 1216 and 1248; however, for a long time European gunpowder weapons were unpredictable, unwieldy and difficult to deploy. As a result, they were mainly used for attacking castles and other defences,

Answer 2

I agree in China by popular consensus. A bamboo tube with gunpowder, ball and a flash hole for a burning ember. That must have been a h**l of a sight.

Answer 3

Somewhere in Europe.. Don't know precisely just where in Europe.*

Answer 4

The oldest existing hand cannon is a .90 caliber hand cannon that was excavated from the ruins of a robbers castle in Germany that was destroyed in 1310 or there abouts.  The hand cannon is thought to have originated in the 1290's.

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