The M61A2 20mm is just the latest generation of the Civil War-era “Gatling Gun,” developed by inventor John Gatling, who wasn’t looking for a more effective killing machine. Rather he ...

A rare Civil War 1875 Gatling gun sold at auction for $93,000 to a private East Coast collector at Wednesday's Nye & Company's Americana auction in Bloomfield. Auction house officials would not ...

The M61A2 20mm is just the latest generation of the Civil War-era “Gatling Gun,” developed by inventor John Gatling, who wasn’t looking for a more effective killing machine. Rather he ...

It could fetch more than $100,000, Holter said. A few Gatling guns saw service in the Civil War during the siege of Petersburg in Virginia. Civil War re-enactor Michael Belgie of West Milford ...

Gatling earned his first patent in November 1862, for the "Improvement in revolving battery-guns," his idea for reducing the number of men needed to fight the American Civil War. In hindsight ...

In an era of warfare remembered for muskets ... them fighting near Petersburg, Va. While Gatling guns didn’t change the outcome of the Civil War (unlike some technology that certainly could ...

It is sometimes mistaken for the much more famous Gatling gun ... 129 teams competed using authentic Civil War-era arms and artillery. For this episode of Gun Of The Week, we’re on the range ...

Soldiers had always marched in lines and rows; those tactics were still used in the US Civil War. But the Gatling gun began a revolution ... well into the Vietnam era and was a workhorse right ...

1861-1865 - American Civil War. Both breech and muzzle loaded guns used. 1862 - The Gatling Gun is invented. 1869 - Center-fire cartridge introduced. 1870-1871- The Franco-German War. Breach ...