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Percussion ignition
Percussion rifle-musket
Flintlock firearms
Caplock firearm
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Caplock firearm
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Flintlock firearms
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Percussion-cap firearms gradually replaced flintlocks during 19th-century military rearmament; this does not imply that every region made the transition at the same time.
Caplock firearm
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Percussion ignition
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Percussion-cap firearms are one complete-firearm implementation of percussion ignition; percussion ignition also includes other arrangements for carrying the primer.
Percussion rifle-musket
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Caplock firearm
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Percussion rifled muzzle-loaders are a type of percussion firearm combining rifling with muzzle-loading construction. This is a classification relation and does not imply that they were the universal successor to all percussion firearms.