snaphance
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thumb|Swedish snaphance guns from the mid 17th century
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thumb|Swedish snaphance guns from the mid 17th century
A snaphance or snaphaunce is a type of firearm lock in which a flint struck against a striker plate above a steel pan ignites the priming powder which fires the gun. It is the mechanical progression of the wheellock firing mechanism, and along with the miquelet lock and doglock are predecessors of the flintlock mechanism.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “snaphance” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.