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Gatling Gun

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Gatling's own reasoning for building the thing is one of the stranger origin stories in firearms history. It occurred to me that if I could invent a machine—a gun—which could by its rapidity of fire, enable one man to do as much battle duty as a hundred, that it would, to a great extent, supersede the necessity of large armies. He was trying to save lives by making killing more efficient. That logic doesn't fully hold up, but it's worth sitting with — the man who built one of the most fears...

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Gatling Gun

Richard Jordan Gatling invented his Gatling gun in 1861, received a patent on November 4, 1862, and in doing so created the first practical rapid-fire firearm in history. It is an early machine gun and a direct forerunner of the modern electrically d

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