As a young boy, Keith Takacs knew he wanted a Gatling gun. The rapid-fire weapon, a precursor to modern machine guns patented in 1862, looked cool in old cowboy movies. Fast-forward a few decades, and ...

Military thinkers are not always the most forward of thinkers, and this was certainly the case with small arms in the nineteenth century. Initially, the U.S. Army was not sold... Here’s What You Need ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Technically the Gatling Gun wasn’t a “machine gun” in the modern sense, as it was hand-cranked – with each crank essentially firing a round and chambering the next ...

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