[Anticrombie0909]

No Henry Colt made the colt rifle...hence the name. Guns were around long before him...it's hard to distinguish when the first 'gun' was even made, since the Chinese were using rockets fueled by gunpowder hundreds of years before what we think of a 'gun' came around.

Go to google, run a search...

Edit: Ah, here we go. Should answer your question, Bean.

http://riv.co.nz/rnza/hist/gun/firstgun.htm