Making something that goes boom is easy. Making something that can contain a boom and channel the boom into only one direction is difficult. Quality metallurgy and precision metal work is actually difficult. Making a tube and a projectile that fit each other nicely is very hard to do at scale.
Well, you could have pointed them at people as soon as they were invented 🙃
Then the gun would have been invented in 200 BC. 🤣
Making something that goes boom is easy. Making something that can contain a boom and channel the boom into only one direction is difficult. Quality metallurgy and precision metal work is actually difficult. Making a tube and a projectile that fit each other nicely is very hard to do at scale.
No, but rockets were a thing
no, you might have a rocket propelled grenade though
True!