Barbour County is named after former Governor of Virginia, James Barbour. It was created in 1832 and was formed from a former Creek Indian Territory and a portion of Pike County. Clayton was named the county seat in 1834 because of its centralized location in the county. By the 1870s, the city of Eufaula grew and sparked many debates as whether to move the county seat or not. In 1879, Barbour County established two courts, one in the city of Clayton and the other in the city of Eufaula. Both courthouses remain in operation today. The county has fewer than 30,000 people and covers about 905 square miles.
A firearm is a portable gun - a barreled weapon that launches one or more projectiles, often driven by the action of an explosive force. The first primitive firearms originated in 13th-century China when the one-person-portable fire lance was combined with projectiles. The technology gradually spread through the rest of East Asia, South Asia, the Middle East and then into Europe.
Are we talking fully automatic or semiautomatic weapons? Not that it matters much, as both kinds were invented around the same time. The first self-powered (i.e. recoil-operated) fully automatic weapon was the Maxim machine gun, invented in 1884 (or '83, depending on the source). The so-called Gatling gun was invented earlier, but it was operated via a crank that you had to continuously turn, so it wouldn't really qualify as fully automatic in the modern sense. Semi-automatic weapons - rifles as well as handguns - were invented around the same time. The first (successful) semiautomatic rifle was the Mannlicher M85, which, not surprisingly, was unveiled in 1885. As for pistols, the first (commercially) successful design was the Borchardt C-93, which was invented in 1893 and became available for sale the following year.