Did we ever figure out wtf picrel is? I remember some time ago we all put our heads together trying to figure out how it’s not just simple short recoil operation with a redundant gas port/expansion chamber/barrel sleeve, but we just couldn’t do it. Has the case been cracked since?

>>64123287
The first firearm. I was reading up about the history of the gunpowder era yesterday. Kinda cool I’m seeing an anon posting about it now.

Boy did it take some centuries before the Chinese figured out what to do with gunpowder. Decades IIRC between discovering the magic alchemical potion of gunpowder (burned a guy’s house down) to revisiting it, managing to contain it, and writing down their discovery. “CAUTION: black potion go boom, be loud, hot, fire”