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Continuously Shooting Blunderbuss
Chinese 连珠铳
Invented 1674[1]
Inventor Dai Zi[2]
Usage Putting down Geng Jingzhong's Rebellion

The Continuously Shooting Blunderbuss[3] (simplified Chinese: 连珠铳; traditional Chinese: 連珠銃), also known as "Lianzhu Huochong" (连珠火铳), [4] was a kind of breech-loading, smooth-bore, single-shot flintlock, [5] invented by Dai Zi (戴梓),[6] a firearms expert in the early Qing Dynasty, in the thirteenth year of Kangxi (1674).

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The Continuously Shooting Blunderbuss could fire 28 rounds of ammunition at a time and was powerful.[7] These guns played an important role in quelling Geng Jingzhong's Rebellion (耿精忠叛乱).[8]

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