Assertion: gatling gun | /r/HasAspect | mechanical cycle of function
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text: The Gatling gun is the first support weapon to possess a mechanical cycle of function.
text: 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.