Gatling Gun

The Gatling Gun was one of the precursors to the modern machine gun, and the first support weapon to possess a mechanical cycle of function; while previous rapid-fire guns had required multiple barrels to fire multiple shots, Dr. Richard Jordan Gatling's gun instead used a mechanism resembling a rack of bolt-action rifles with their bolts interfacing with cams to operate them as the barrel group was rotated by a hand crank, using a single common feed source. The gun was initially used with paper cartridges in metal chamber sleeves (effectively making the gun an incredibly bizarre revolver), but switched to brass metallic cartridges with their invention.
Many models of Gatling were produced in various calibres, usually with six barrels but some with up to ten.
In the strictest sense Gatling's invention was not a machine gun since it was still completely manually operated, with the Maxim being the first true machine gun; it is often categorised as one because the effect of the weapon was the same. In the United States, the BATFE has ruled likewise that a crank-operated Gatling Gun is not legally considered a machine gun, since it requires continuous manual actions by the operator in order to fire.
Gatling also experimented with rigging one of his guns to an early electric motor, experiments that would be revitalised during the 1950s with the development of the M61 Vulcan aircraft cannon.
When Gatling guns were ordered by Tsarist Russia their production was overseen by General Aleksandr Gorloff, the military attaché to the Russian embassy in Washington DC. Gorloff slyly had his own name stamped on the weapons in Cyrillic before they were shipped, leading to some confusion in Russia with nationalists crediting Gorloff as the inventor and referring to the weapons as "Gorloff Guns."
Note: This page is reserved for the 19th century models of Gatling Guns build by manufacturers such as Colt. Modern electric driven Gatling-type weapons don't belong here nor should they be linked here.
=Specifications=
(1861-1911)
Type: Rapid-fire gun
Caliber: Various, including .30-03, .30-06, .30-40, .45-70, .50-70, .58 Rimfire and 1-inch on naval versions.
Capacity: Various gravity feeds: manually loaded hopper (M1865), gravity "magazine" with unsprung follower (M1871), Bruce feed guide (M1881), Broadwell Drum (a cylindrical feeding device which was manually rotated to bring stacks of cartridges into position, either a seldom-used 400-round version with 20 20-round stacks or the more common 240-rounder with 20 stacks of 15), 104-round Accles Drum (a feeding system resembling a sideways pan magazine in that it was indexed by the gun's mechanism rather than a spring follower)
Fire Modes: Manual crank operated, speed depending on operator (usually 200-400 RPM), electrically driven Model 1893 tested at up to 1,500 RPM
Crew: 4
Gatling Guns of multiple manufacturers have been used in the following films:
== Film ==
Title 	Actor 	Character 	Note 	Date
The Real Glory 	David Niven 	Lt. Terence McCool 	Model 1883 	1939
Gunga Din 	 	British troops 	Model 1883 	1939
Vera Cruz 	Gary Cooper 	Benjamin Trane 	Model 1883 	1954
Vera Cruz 	 	Emperor Maximilian's soldiers	Model 1883 	1954
The War Wagon 	Bruce Cabot 	Frank Pierce 	mounted in turret 	1967
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly 	 	Union Army 	Model 1865 and 1874, anachronistic	1966
Guns of the Magnificent Seven 	Bernie Casey 	Cassie 	1883 model 	1969
100 Rifles 	 	Mexican soldiers, Indians 	 	1969
Sabata 	 	Stengel's henchemen 	 	1969
Two Mules for Sister Sara 	 	French Troops 	 	1970
There was a crooked man 	 	 	 	1970
Adios, Sabata 	 	Fake Mexican soldier 	 	1970
Something Big 	 	 	 	1971
Bad Man's River 	 	 	 	1971
A Reason to Live, A Reason to Die 	Benito Stefanelli 	Samuel "Piggot" Picket 	 	1972
A Reason to Live, A Reason to Die 	Bud Spencer 	Eli Sampson 	 	1972
A Reason to Live, A Reason to Die 	Reinhard Kolldehoff	Sergeant Brent 	 	1972
A Reason to Live, A Reason to Die 	 	Several Confederate soldiers 	 	1972
The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid	 	Pinkertons 	 	1972
The Outlaw Josey Wales 	 	Union Army 	 	1975
Rooster Cogburn 	John Wayne 	Rooster Cogburn 	 	1975
Rooster Cogburn 	Katharine Hepburn 	 	 	1975
Rustlers' Rhapsody 	 	Ticonderoga's men 	Model 1874 	1985
Young Guns 	 	Union Army 	 	1988
Batman Returns 	 	 	 	1992
Bad Girls 	Madeleine Stowe 	Cody 	Model 1874 	1994
Nostromo 	 	 	 	1996
Dollar for the Dead 	William Forsythe 	Dooley 	 	1998
Wild Wild West 	 	 	 	1999
American Outlaws 	 	Union Army 	 	2001
The Last Samurai 	 	Imperial Japanese Army 	Model 1874 	2003
Van Helsing 	 	weapons tester 	 	2004
Tremors 4: The Legend Begins 	Michael Gross 	Hiram Gummer 	 	2004
3:10 to Yuma (2007) 	 	cart gunners 	Rubber Model 1874 	2007
The Book of Eli 	 	Carnegie's men 	 	2010
Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows 	 	Meinhard guards 	Ammo fed from Broadwell drums 	2011
Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins 	Teruyuki Kagawa 	Kanryuu Takeda 	 	2012
Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno 	Ken'ichi Takitô 	Sadojima Hoji 	 	2014
The Magnificent Seven 	 	 	 	2016
== Television ==
Title 	Actor 	Character 	Note/Episode 	Date
Black Fox The Price of Peace 	Christopher Reeve	Alan Johnson 	Mounted on tripod 	1995
Rough Riders 	 	U.S Army 	Model 1895 	1997
Lock 'n Load With R. Lee Ermey	Himself 	R. Lee Ermey 	 	2009
Deadliest Warrior 	 	Theodore Roosevelt	Model 1897 	2009-2011
Yae's Sakura 	 	 	"Save Aizu" (Ep.23) 	2013
Westworld 	 	various 	Model 1874 	2016
The War of the Worlds 	 	British soldier 	Model 1874, Broadwell drum 	2019
Better Call Saul - Season 5 	 	 	Seen in armory; "Bagman" (S5E08)	2020
==Animation ==
Title	Character 	Note 	Date
Rango	The Mole Clan 	belt-fed; attached to saddles 	2011
Rango	Rattlesnake Jake	attached to tail in place of a rattle	2011
== Video Games ==
Game Title 	Appears as 	Notation 	Release Date
Dead Man's Hand 	 	'M1865 Model, mounted on a tripod 	2005
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 	 	1883 model replica, seen in cutscene 	2005
Resident Evil 4 	 	With M134 drive mechanism 	2005
Gun 	 	 	2005
Call of Juarez 	 	With a drum magazine 	2007
History Channel: Civil War - Secret Missions	 	 	2008
Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood 	 	With drum and stick magazines 	2009
Jurassic: The Hunted 	 	Used as a turret weapon 	2009
Red Dead Redemption 	 	Without a magazine 	2010
Civilization V 	 	 	2010
Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Wild West 	 	With unlimited magazine 	2010
Total War: Shogun 2 — Fall of the Samurai 	 	1874 model 	2011
The Showdown Effect 	 	portable 	2013
The Walking Dead: Season Two 	 	Unusable; seen in a Parker's Run Civil War Museum 	2013
Fistful of Frags 	 	Used as a turret weapon - no magazine 	2014
World of Guns: Gun Disassembly 	Gatling Gun 	 	2014
World of Guns: Gun Disassembly 	Hotchkiss revolving cannon	 	2014
Ryu ga Gotoku Ishin! 	 	Unused prop 	2014
Assassin's Creed Syndicate 	 	1865 model, incorrectly with Broadwell Drum 	2015
Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades 	"Hand Crank Frank" 	In both mounted and handheld form 	2016
Shadow Warrior 2 	 	Not usable 	2016
Red Dead Redemption II 	"Gatling Gun" 	 	2018
Yakuza Kiwami 2 	 	 	2018
Fallout 76 	"Gatling Gun" 	In handheld configuration, can be used with Broadwell Drums	2018
== Anime ==
Title 	Character 	Note 	Date
Momotaro: Sacred Sailors 	British soldiers 	 	1945
Castle in the Sky 	Crewmen 	 	1986
Gun Frontier 	Shitalnen 	 	2002
Steamboy 	 	Mounted in Steam Castle 	2005
The Mystic Archives of Dantalian	A group of suitors	Model 1874, Broadwell drum 	2011
Suisei no Gargantia 	Sailors 	 	2013
The Empire of Corpses 	Afghan soldiers 	 	2015
Princess Principal 	Kingdom sailors 	Ep. 03; 1877 Bulldog Gatling Gun	2017
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