"There were Gatling guns," the GOP lawmaker said during the interview, after urging people to know their history. "And that was a pretty high-powered machine, fully automatic really. And I think ...

Despite American forces using the weapon into the 1890s, the Gatling gun fast became obsolete. The culprit in its quick death was Hiram Maxim's new automatic machine gun, introduced in 1886.

The Gatling, a predecessor of the modern machine gun, was first used by Union soldiers during the Civil War By Kelsey D. Atherton Published August 22, 2013 4:34PM (EDT) ...

Murfreesboro may be a small town, but it is the birthplace of the man who built the Gatling gun, the forerunner to the modern machine gun. Posted 2015-04-15T22:14:56+00:00 - Updated 2015-04-15T22 ...

--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 ...

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 ...

Yesterday in 1866, the U.S. Army adopted machine guns for the first time.Or, well, almost machine guns: the Gatling gun, first patented in 1862, wasn’t fully mechanical.Someone still had to ...

The Army recently tested a Gatling gun mounted to a UH-60 Black Hawk for the first time at Yuma Proving Ground, ... the Army tried out a new 20mm Gatling-style machine gun for the very first time.

On this week's episode of American Rifleman TV, we continue with the top 10 machine guns of all time, with the Gatling and Bren Gun. We'll also take a look at the CrossBreed Chest Rig Holster ...