Navy SEAL Explains How The Gatling Gun Was Invented! #shorts

it was a corn planter 😂

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[wileyhuntjr]

The first gatling guns were purchased by officers of the union as private citizens, not representatives of the government. Private citizens had the ability and right to obtain military grade hardware for personnel use no questions asked. This is the truth of the Second Amendment.

[CaratX_CEO]

It’s amazing what drives people to accomplish things, such as this. It’s a true passion

[elliotlee]

He lost his son and figured If he could make a gun that had 8 barrels we would only need 1/8 the amount of soldiers in combat.

[MAGA.Trucker]

The moment President Lincoln saw this, he said, "Merica!" 😂

[jaytee]

The Rebels used to call it the Devils breath because of how much death it would bring.

[jarjarbnks]

Chief of Ordinance General James Ripley felt that repeating rifles and gatling guns were a waste of ammo. Lincoln later fired Ripley from the Ordinance department when he kept delaying the introduction of repeating rifles.

[thetruth]

Lincoln also shot and loved the Henry Repeating Rifle, on the mall, but the bean counters said the same thing, waste ammunition and is expensive to make and limited numbers where issued, bought by wealthy soldiers, but eventually with some help, and discussing that it could make the war end sooner they where finally adopted.

[Fokuzedgamers]

Back in those times metallic cartridges were still a rarity on the battlefield. So firing that many rounds in short succession seemed insane. Even in WW1 guns like the Lee Enfield had magazine cut offs. You would single load rounds till an officer said you could disengage it or if it was an emergency. But guns like the Gatling or later the maxim weren’t fully appreciated till 1916.

[TheBuzzo]

In 1893 Gatling was granted a patent for an Electrically Powered Gatling Gun that had theoretical rate of fire of 3000 rpm.

[slyllamademon]

Anything that lets you shoot fast and in high volume has a place on the battlefield.

[zapapple]

Lmaoo my first thought was God damn we have turned all of our farming tools into weapons.. from "Plows to swords. " Now, Corn planters to gatling guns 😂😂😂

[ZionDR]

If you heard a Gatling(/machine) gun, you would not worry about the amount of ammunition it consumes due to the presence it would have on the battlefield.

[Henry-dgez]

Ammo waste was also the reasons given for not switching to repeating (bolt action) rifles and then semi auto and automatic rifles. Lives were considered cheaper than ammo

[davidholtz]

That ammunition cost-based logic was a significant part of the reasoning for the ongoing adoption of muzzle-loading, single shot, black powder rifles for Union infantry consumed ammunition slower. As long as volunteers kept volunteering, and the draft was in effect, soldiers were plentiful and the cost of a man's life wasn't a major consideration. Meanwhile, many different repeating, magazines and cartridge based rifles were being invented. Some units' soldiers purchased their own such rifles; Wilder's Lightning Brigade of mounted infantry was one. They fought like true dragoons, on foot mostly.

[JonKorpi-fkyo]

Good old Abe knew what he was looking at a body planter buy them all

[goofyahhgamerproductions]

Now that’s an American moment right there

[MrHeuvaladao]

Lincoln: "I'm taking three for myself"

[jessegimenez]

And that is what separates great men like Lincoln and Gatling from that officer lol

[chaoshunter]

That gun was meant to save lives. It was supposed to be so scary that the Southern Army would give up when it was deployed.

[hardrockminer-]

I was reading about the 1873 Springfield. The standard firearm of the US. Army well after repeating rifles by Henry and Winchester were available. The reason for staying with a single shot rifle was to mot consume so much ammunition.

Sounds like accountants were dictating Army policy as far back as 1860.