Why it Made the Cut: Originally developed for the Trapdoor Springfield and even used in some military Gatling guns, the .45/70 is arguably the cartridge that best represents America. Though it was ...

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Initial tests proved promising as a vintage Gatling gun, now powered by an electric ... the much smaller 7.62mm percussion primed rifle cartridge. Capable of firing 6,000 rounds per minute ...

Jan. 9, 1905: A Gatling gun arrives in Lexington to protect the tobacco district from Night Riders, a militant, terrorist group of tobacco farmers who resisted the practices of the American ...