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Flintlock Rifle, 1828 Model Despite the fact that on June 15, 1884, a Royal Order decreed that the Infantry of the Civil Guard would receive a 15-gauge rifle two fingers shorter than the standard, they were issued this flintlock rifle, also issued to the Army. The flintlock mechanism was used in muzzle-loading rifles from the 17th to the 19th centuries. This weapon had a French lock—a progression of the wheel lock—which it replaced along with the matchlock. With an 18.3 mm (0.72") caliber (from 17 mm or 0.67”), it fired when the piece of flint, clamped onto the end of a short hammer, hit against a piece of steel called a frizzen, generating sparks that would fall into the flashpan and ignite the gunpowder. []