Unchained Preppers
General Category => Security & Survival => Topic started by: Grudgie on August 21, 2012, 01:43:21 AM
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I was just wondering. There is a lot of craze these days bypassing full auto gun laws by making little devices to that feel like full auto The slide fire solutions stock, little miniature gatling gun triggers, and even rubberbands. I have seen some really intricate bump fire contraptions in Shotgun news to.
It is common knowledge that Gatling guns are not considered full auto. Why doesn't someone capitalize on this concept and design a modern gatling gun designed from the ground up to have a crank action? Does Dr. Gattling's family still have some kind of rights to the design or something?
And if anyone doubts a Gattling gun's effectiveness versus a 'true machine gun' just read a little about Dr. Gattling's original design and its military trials. It has been a long time since I read about it but I faintly recall it could accurately fire and sustain high rates of fire at 1000 yards. Using what calbur I don't remember. It was a book about the AK47 called 'The Gun'. The first third of the book talks solely about the development of the Gattling Gun and the Maxim and how it was slowly adopted into modern warfare. Very intresting stuff. The Gattling gun was a truly amazing gun and I couldn't believe the things the book said it did.
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Here is something I found online about an original trial in 1873. Basically it says a Gattling was fired at a range of 800 yards on a target 9 feet high by 45 feet wide (which I assume was represenative of a formation of troops that was still being used at the time). 600 shots were fired in a minute and a half. So about 450 rounds per minute which is about the rate of fire of a German MP40. 534 shots struck the target. That is nasty results for the day.
The PDF is right here: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10617FE385D1A7493C7A9178BD95F478784F9 (http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10617FE385D1A7493C7A9178BD95F478784F9)
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A crank will not fail however another opion might be electric trigger.
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Fort Sisseton 2009 Gatling Gun Firing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqFJ2SuRAPw#ws)
Dual AK 47 gatling gun (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQiV4kEYWCs#)
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i'll take an ak47 with a drum mag over a clumsy mounted crank weapon any day
with those tapco triggers and some training you can really get some rounds per minute........... [img]http://www.smileydesign.n