[quote=@Inkdrop]
[@Willy Vereb]The Stoludians do use firing mechanisms that actually predate the flintlock by a few decades. They are behind in technology so the date is okay but they are not quite to flintlocks yet. 
[/quote]Doglocks and snaphauces in the broader sense are both flintlocks, just a bit more complicated. Actually the snaphauce is known for being more reliable...just also more expensive to make. Flintlock is a simplified thus cheaper and mechanically more reliable system (though poorer designs suffered from lack of snap power thus the above problem with realibility).
That's how I remember, IIRC.
But yeah, both of those seemingly disappeared by the early 18th century to be replaced by the Flintlock. Though not entirely.