A SCOTTISH PISTOL
Jul 15, 2021
2 minutes
BY ROBERT WOOSNAM SAVAGE FSA
HERE appears to have been a well-established gun-making industry in Scotland by at least 1535. The earliest known reference to pistols in the English language comes from a record in the burgh of Stirling dated 9 May 1549 relating to the prosecution of two men for wounding and the “schoting
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