Chinese jingal (wall gun)
Official wording
Chinese, Jingal rifle, cal. .60, S/N IRS 9083H.
What this entry requires
- ATF REQUIRESYour serial number is one ATF listsATF: “S/N IRS 9083H”
- INFOATF states no date; production was about 1850–1900.
Editorial facts · Our research
Low editorial confidence. Some details below couldn’t be confirmed from independent sources. The ATF wording is unaffected. About confidence
- Country
ChinaBasis: the ATF wording - Manufacturer
- Not stated (Chinese manufacture)Basis: the ATF wording
- Type
- RifleBasis: the ATF wording
- Action
- OtherBasis: no citation
- Caliber
- .60Basis: the ATF wording
- Made
- S/N IRS 9083H only · c. 1850–1900production; ATF states no dateBasis: no citation
- Service
- Military
Source
- Official wording
- ATF P 5300.11, April 2025 edition · Section III · PDF p. 23 ↗ · ATF original ↗
- Entries
- 1 line
- Verbatim check
- Checked against the PDF text before every release
- Editorial facts
- Confidence: Low · Last revised 18 October 2026 (Evidence pass) · How we rate confidence
- References
- 1. Wikipedia, “Wall gun” ↗, general: wall guns: scaled-up muskets used by defending forces, 16th–19th centuries
- Fact tags
- ATF the ATF wording states it.
- REF ¹ an outside reference supports it; the number points to the list of references.
- ESTIMATE an approximate or indirect reading, for example the production range of the base model.
- NO CITATION we haven’t attached a reference for this fact; it’s our editorial reading, not ATF’s.
- Source checked
- 20 October 2026: ATF’s page still lists the April 2025 edition
- Corrections
- 1 change · see below
Correction history
- Evidence passMaker: Unknown Chinese maker → Not stated (Chinese manufacture)
Historical context
Image: Wikimedia Commons, “Wallbüchsen 2015-07-26.jpg”, Public domain. Retrieved October 2026.
Summary: Wikipedia, “Wall gun”. Text CC BY-SA 4.0.
FROM WIKIPEDIA
The wall gun or wall piece was a type of smoothbore firearm used from 16th until 19th centuries by defending forces to break the advance of enemy troops. Essentially, it was a scaled-up version of the army's standard infantry musket, operating under the same principles, but with a bore of up to one-inch (25.4 mm) calibre. These weapons filled a gap in firepower between the musket and the lightest artillery pieces, such as the swivel gun. This sort of weapon may also be found described as a rampart gun, hackbut or amusette, a name originally given to early medieval hand cannon.