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According to the online etymology dictionary "to fire a gun", the ... sense being from "set fire to gunpowder," attested from 1530." Best regards.
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Canons and the earliest hand guns (the hand cannon and arquebus) were fired in the same way: you actually set fire to the powder in the flash-pan. The command "fire" meant to put the fire to the powder.
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