Trade guns were used all over the world, and over a span of many years. The English, French, and Americans traded many smooth bored guns to American and Canadian Indians for furs, etc. The story was that a musket would bring a stack of beaver skins as high as the musket was long. Of course I can't verify this, since I was only a child at the time. Again, this was an entirely different class of gun than those "made for the trade".
Mike

Last edited by Der Ami; 10/22/15 04:43 PM.