Gatling Gun

The Gatling Gun was one of the precursors to the modern machine gun, and the first support weapon to possess a mechanical cycle of function; while previous rapid-fire guns had required multiple barrels to fire multiple shots, Gatling's gun instead used a mechanism resembling a rack of bolt-action rifles with their bolts interfacing with cams to operate them as the barrel group was rotated by a hand crank, using a single common feed source. The gun was initially used with paper cartridges in metal chamber sleeves, but switched to brass metallic cartridges with their invention.

In the strictest sense Gatling's invention was not a machine gun since it was still completely manually operated, with the Maxim being the first true machine gun; it is often categorised as one because the effect of the weapon was the same. Gatling also experimented with rigging one of his guns to an early electric motor, experiments that would be revitalised during the 1950s with the development of the M61 Vulcan aircraft cannon.

When Gatling guns were ordered by Tsarist Russia their production was overseen by General Aleksandr Gorloff, the military attaché to the Russian embassy in Washington DC. Gorloff slyly had his own name stamped on the weapons in Cyrillic before they were shipped, leading to some confusion in Russia with nationalists crediting Gorloff as the inventor and referring to the weapons as "Gorloff Guns."

Gatling Guns of multiple manufacturers have been used in the following films:

British M1865 Gatling Gun at the Royal Artillery Museum - .58 Rimfire / .50-70

Colt Gatling Gun - .45-70

Colt Model 1883 Gatling Gun - .45-70

1877 Bulldog Gatling Gun - .45-70 Government

Note: This page is reserved for the 19th century models of Gatling Guns build by manufacturers such as Colt. Modern electric driven Gatling-type weapons don't belong here nor should they be linked here.

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
The Real Glory	David Niven	Lt. Terence McCool	Model 1883	1939
Gunga Din		British troops	Model 1883	1939
The War Wagon	Bruce Cabot	Frank Pierce	mounted in turret	1967
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly		Union Army		1966
Guns of the Magnificent Seven	Bernie Casey	Cassie	1883 model	1969
100 Rifles		Mexican soldiers, Indians		1969
Two Mules for Sister Sara		French Troops		1970
The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid		Pinkertons		1972
The Outlaw Josey Wales		Union Army		1975
Rooster Cogburn	John Wayne	Rooster Cogburn		1975
Rooster Cogburn	Katharine Hepburn			1975
Young Guns		Union Army		1988
Batman Returns				1992
Bad Girls	Madeleine Stowe	Cody	Model 1874	1994
Nostromo				1996
Wild Wild West				1999
American Outlaws		Union Army		2001
The Last Samurai		Imperial Japanese Army	Model 1874	2003
Van Helsing		weapons tester		2004
Tremors 4: The Legend Begins	Michael Gross	Hiram Gummer		2004
3:10 to Yuma (2007)		cart gunners	Rubber Model 1874	2007
The Book of Eli		Carnegie's men		2010
Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows		Meinhard guards	Ammo fed from Broadwell drums	2011

Television

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
Lock 'n Load With R. Lee Ermey
Rough Riders		U.S Army		1997
Deadliest Warrior		Theodore Roosevelt	Model 1897| 2009-???

Animation

Title	Character	Note	Date
Rango	The Mole Clan	belt-fed; attached to saddles	2011
Rango	Rattlesnake Jake	attached to tail in place of a rattle	2011

Video Games

Game Title	Appears as	Notation	Release Date
Resident Evil 4			2005
Gun			2005
Call of Juarez		With a drum magazine	2007
Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood		With drum and stick magazines	2009
Jurassic: The Hunted		Used as a turret weapon	2009
Red Dead Redemption		Without a magazine	2010
Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Wild West		With unlimited magazine	2010
Total War: Shogun 2 — Fall of the Samurai			2011
The Showdown Effect		portable	2013

Anime

Title	Character	Note	Date
Gun Frontier	Shitalnen		2002
Steamboy		Mounted in Steam Castle	2005
Mystic Archives of Dantalian, The	A group of suitors	Broadwell drum	2011
Suisei no Gargantia	Sailors		2013