The Puckle gun was considered the world’s first machine gun (though it doesn’t quite qualify under today’s terminology). It sounds great, but Puckle added some questionable features to his ...

Republican Representative Lauren Boebert wrongly claimed in recent interview that Gatling guns were around during the time that the Second Amendment was written. Above, Boebert is seen at a news ...

--At the be ginning of the eighteenth century James Puckle (an original thinker, and author of several curious works) issued, somewhere about the year 1720, an engraved broadside, the only copy of ...

Three centuries ago, London lawyer James Puckle dreamed up a gun he hoped would be a hit with the British Navy, and a financial boon for himself. Instead, Puckle’s peculiar creation, resembling ...

The M134 GAU-17 “Vulcan” cannon is a six-barreled, air cooled, medium machine gun used primarily as a fire suppression weapon in aircraft for the U.S. military. The so-called “Gatling ...

NAGPUR: Finding a Gatling isn’t easy, a functioning one even tougher. World’s first rapid-firing multiple-barrel machine gun, invented way back in 1862 by an American doctor, was declared ...

Some of the machine guns that first appeared in World War II are still in used today, ... Like the GAU-8 Avenger and the M134 Minigun, the MK15 Phalanx is a Gatling-style gun.

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 ...