Oldest firearm found in USA

[Sld1959]

Oldest US firearm discovered in Arizona: a 500-year-old relic of Coronado's expedition

Archaeologists in Arizona have unearthed a bronze cannon linked to the 16th-century expedition of Francisco Vázquez de Coronado

archaeologymag.com

 

[Belt Fed]

That belongs to @Old_Me, he had that made for him and lost it. wasn't Arizona when he lost it there.

 

[Shibadog]

Amazing. The Conquistadores were amazing. They were all over the America’s decades before Jamestown or the Pilgrims. California was a Spanish colony a long time before our English forbearers arrived-a history that’s not often discussed.

 

[Recusant]

Don’t forget the Vikings. They may have even beat Columbus.

 

[KillerFord1977]

That belongs to @Old_Me, he had that made for him and lost it. wasn't Arizona when he lost it there.

Yeah, I bet he wasnt a cantankerous old codger either.
Well, nevermind, bet he was born that way

 

[HansGruber]

Don’t forget the Vikings. They may have even beat Columbus.

They did; L’Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland predates Columbus by several centuries.

 

[Jester560]

Don’t forget the Vikings. They may have even beat Columbus.

Without a doubt they did.

 

[Sld1959]

They did; L’Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland predates Columbus by several centuries.

And they found butternuts at the Viking settlement which indicates they most likely delved further into North America as they do not grow there but are found further in.

 

[bc22wm]

Interesting find but the article had to have the obligatory evil Europeans picking on the peaceful natives.