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GATLING GUNS:
To view Gatling Guns for sale CLICK HERE This web site has one of the largest (if not the largest) selection of Gatling Guns on the Internet. For sale is original Gatling Guns made in the 19th century, some Gatling Gun parts and reproduction Gatling Guns. If you are a Civil War or Indian War buff, museum or collectors we can provide the item you have dreamed of owning. Invention of the Gatling Gun Shortly after the outbreak of the Civil War, April 1861, Richard J. Gatling began work on his most famous invention. In an article in the Scientific American of March 30, 1889: The idea of it originated in a conversation Dr. Gatling had in Indianapolis in 1861 with a friend of his, Benjamin Harrison, now President. Harrison was a colonel commanding a regiment of the Indiana Volunteers at the time the Gatling Gun was invented. It has been suggested the he (Harrison) assisted or encouraged Dr. Gatling in the development of his battery gun. The idea for the Gatling Gun was conceived during the summer of 1861. A prototype gun, made late in that year, was demonstrated in Indianapolis early in 1862. On November 4, 1862, Patent No. 38,836 was granted for his Improvement in Revolving Battery-Gun. The earlist percussion version of the Model 1862 was quite unlike any of the later guns. Instead of self-contained cartridges, this model used separate steel chambers or tubes having their closed ends fitted with nipples for percussion caps. These units were, in effect, miniature gun barrels. A paper cartridge, containing powder and bullet, was inserted into the tube, which was then primed by putting a percussion cap on the nipple. A quantity of these charge tubes was placed in the feed hopper and the gun was ready to fire. Later models the standard 45-70 cartridge became the standard for most Gatling Guns. Today in the 21 century, the Gatling Guns is in use again supplying fire power for modern military aircraft like the A10 Wart Hog tank killer.
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