How Do You Use A Flare Gun?
Flare guns and signal flares have been used by the military and the public as safety tools for more than a century. Early signaling pistols were patented in the United States in the mid-19th century. Flares come in varying forms and compositions, but generally, they are devices that use fire or a burning substance to provide illumination without an explosion. The father of the modern flare gun is generally held to be Edward Very (1847-1910), although Benjamin Franklin Coston invented a similar, earlier flare gun. Very was an officer in the U.S. Navy, and in 1877, he designed a short-barreled, 10-gauge pistol in which a flare could be easily loaded into the breech and fired. His flare gun was first used by the Navy in 1882. By World War I, flare guns were in use throughout the world. Thanks to Edward Very’s accomplishments, early flare guns and even some later models are referred to as Very pistols. Many of these guns were larger than Very’s invention, and some had multiple barrels. Arm
