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Gatling

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Type of machine gun invented by Dr Richard Gatling and patented in 1862.


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Can achieve much higher rates of fire than conventional single-barrel machine guns as the multiple barrel design allows one barrel to be loaded as another is fired and another is having the spent case extracted.