John Rumm wrote:

Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

And most of these started out as hunting weapons. Not so the
hand gun. Its sole purpose is to kill or main man.

Rhubarb. With lots of custard.

I keep on asking people like you what it was invented for if not killing
man? But they are all strangely quiet on this one while prattling on
about sports etc.

Why the fascination with *why* something was invented?

Because someone thinks it's a shortcut to declaring that "guns are
inherently evil". Sloppy, lazy thinking IMO. And as demonstrated with
the "debate" about the Olympics holding mutually irreconcilable beliefs
that guns are primarily weapons, but swords, bows, javelins and missiles
are not is possible for some people.