That's not a very smart thing to say to a Navy Seal. This man would make sausage-links out of you armed only with a head of broccoli. You could have any number of firearms you wished, I'd still put my money on Trav.
I guess you have never seen the very large bore (several inches bore) goose guns that would kill a dozen large Canada geese in one shot, at 100 yards and more! They were commonly used from boats in days of vast migrating flocks, they could just have easily been used against people. With no anesthesia, antibiotics or sterile surgery they could have caused massive casualties over the several days the victims would have taken to die in screaming agony of sepsis. But their were no recorded colonial Colombines, and no moves to outlaw them until this century, and only then for reasons of game conservation.
So yes, I would be very willing to stand 100 feet from you with such a colonial era weapon, and you with a modern rifle, while I wear modern ballistic body armor and have a modern trauma center standing by, and you get the pleasure of dying in screaming pain of a dozen or so rusty nail wounds, with nothing but a bullet to bite on.
IOW, your theory that colonial firearms were harmless gentle things is pathetic. (It might be enough to gull the morons on DU, but you have a more intelligent crowd here.) Given the comparative state of colonial medicine, their weapons were quite deadly, even if death was commonly a matter of days and not minutes.
Your knowledge of colonial era weaponry is pathetic, much like the rest of your lame arguements.