#bronze gun

[blueiscoool]

The Oldest Known Firearm in the U.S. Found in Arizona

Independent researchers in Arizona have unearthed a bronze cannon linked to the 16th-century expedition of Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, and it is marked to be the oldest known firearm found in the continental United States.

The 42-inch-long, roughly 40-pound sand-cast bronze cannon was discovered at the location of a Spanish stone-and-adobe structure in the Santa Cruz Valley that is thought to have been a part of the short-lived settlement San Geronimo III.

To finance an expedition to North America in 1539, Vázquez de Coronado took out large loans and mortgaged his wife’s possessions. The Spanish conquistador and his 350 soldiers intended to locate the legendary (and nonexistent) Seven Cities of Gold north of Mexico. By 1541, they had reached southern Arizona, where they established a settlement they called San Geronimo III, or Suya. San Geronimo was the first European town in the American Southwest.

Rather than accumulating immense wealth, Coronado and his men plied, and spent the next three years plundering, enslaving, and murdering their way across the region. These transgressions did not go unanswered. In the predawn hours of one fateful morning in 1541, the native Sobaipuri launched a surprise attack on the town. Many settlers were killed in their beds, and the survivors fled in disarray. The cannon — meant to intimidate and protect — was never even loaded.

Although Coronado was bankrupt and facing war crime charges when his expedition came to an end in Mexico City, his impact on North America would last for many generations.

One site in particular has produced a large number of artifacts associated with the explorers, according to the authors of a study published on November 21st in the International Journal of Historical Archeology. Researchers found European pottery, weapon parts, including a 42-inch-long bronze cannon, and glass and olive jar fragments in the ruins of a stone and adobe building in Arizona’s Santa Cruz Valley.

“Not only is it the first gun ever recovered from the Coronado expedition, but consultation with experts throughout the continent and in Europe reveal that it is also the oldest firearm ever found inside the continental USA,” Archaeologist Deni Seymour explained.

The early firearm also called a wall gun, was typically used as a defensive weapon positioned on a wooden tripod on fortification walls and required two operators. However, in Coronado’s case, such a cannon would have been used offensively, typically to pierce the weaker walls of buildings in Indigenous communities.

Archaeologists were able to date the cannon to Coronado’s time using radiocarbon dating and optically stimulated luminescence techniques, and the other artifacts matched descriptions of the supplies and possessions of his expedition. However, the wall gun’s simple casting suggests that, in contrast to more elaborate Spanish cannons, it might have been built in Mexico or the Caribbean—and possibly even acquired from Ponce de León’s previous expedition.

By Oguz Kayra.

[ltwilliammowett]

A 42-pdr. bronze gun recovered from HMS Victory (1737)

[bacchuschucklefuck]

[lxvesick-stars]

I'd like to send a personal reminder that celestial bronze guns are CANON yet we don't see anybody use one. Complete missed opportunity especially considering WE'RE IN AMERICA HERE!!!!

[diino8081]

BRONZE AND PINK

content warnings for gore and violence (text only)

💼 whenever you're around bronze, there's always a faint ticking. the sound resonates as they adjust their visor, light sparking in front of them. they smile. it's almost time.

🌸 the shot rings out. the flesh explodes into chunks, landing in the snow. he picks up the body. a crimson trail splatters on white as each step crunches through the cold. father will be eating well today.

masterpost

[onlylonelylatino]

The Avengers and Immortus meet the old Atlas western heroes by George Pérez

[mlady-magnolia]

@i-am-a-fan and I stayed up too late and were being stupid about PJO and this is the result <3

Introducing Ophelia Pham, the daughter of Hecate, and avid supporter of the second amendment (/lh)

[almostourgalaxy]

Don't look up.

Based on my drabble Run-In, from yesterday.

[evilhorse]

This weapon is to arrest—not punish!

(1st Issue Special #4)

[kudzucataclysm]

i probably dont have to justify why exactly guns exist in a metal age fantasy setting but yknow what the research is still fun anyways so might as well

[ginge1962]

Mighty Marvel Western #42 - October 1975, cover by Gil Kane.

[kaliuchisdaughter]

i just think drew tanaka should be given a gun

[ltwilliammowett]

British bronze signal cannon with Dolphins - circa 1770

[fancyfade]

I'll confess to not being a fan of the way Ben's backstory is written in Suicide Squad #38. I feel like a lot of the way they handle Ben's trauma as a child is ... very different from how they would've handled a white character who had killed someone as a child.

Like a lot of it seems to be trying to imply he's just got this innate rage/need for violence, either stemming from trauma of witnessing his parents being assaulted (and then killing the assaulter) or that just being the first time he became aware of it, depending on how you choose to read it.

like the most charitable interpretation of this is ben's guilt making him mix up his memories and adrenaline rush but i'm really not sure I feel like giving the authors so much of benefit of the doubt given the rest of the story.

like again: disclaimer: I don't think that there's anything wrong if a child did kill someone in self defense and then didn't feel bad about it. but using the story elements present, like I said, I feel like it's written very different from who DC would write a white child in the same situation. Ben's anger is emphasized a lot, even though he wasn't written as particularly angry at all in the first 37 issues. And like, he has reason to be angry, but it's more of just treated as 'he's angry in general and he felt better knowing that he could hurt people and enjoyed it" than "he has reason to be angry and would want to learn how to fight/hurt people due to having witnessed his parents being assaulted and having to kill someone at 10 years old".

He also is clarified to have killed people for the LoA

But in the first comic I've read with him in the LoA, part of what frustrates sensei is that ben doesn't kill

Detective Comics #485

maybe it's different if they changed it from him having amnesia to being brainwashed? either way, it's weird.

and maybe i would change my mind if i read all of ben's comics in richard dragon, I'll confess I haven't read them there, or all the connecting comics between that and suicide squad. but this is mostly me putting my thoughts down and it just seems pretty weird to me.

After this encounter with Steel, where he has ben put on his tiger mask again, Ben has a mental breakdown and becomes a mercenary for a year and is convinced he's a terrible person. No one else seems to believe it, Ravan doesn't, Waller and Mari don't. I don't know if they just wanted an excuse to get rid of Ben for a year while Waller was in jail or what but it all feels kind of pointless

[misterdtour]

When Spidey Jumped the Shark, Pt. 7: The Roger Stern Era

An analysis of the #RogerStern Era of #SpiderMan. #WhenSpideyJumpedTheShark

The Roger Stern Era of Amazing Spider-Man had a nice little rehearsal space of sorts in the pages of Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man, as touched on last time. Continue reading When Spidey Jumped the Shark, Pt. 7: The Roger Stern Era

[pjohshit]

pjo universe canonically has magic demigod guns