BP .75 caliber gatling gun

[mooncoon]

The law refers to more than one shot on a single pressure on the trigger.
The crank is deemed to be the trigger.
Doesn't matter how many times you wind the crank - if more than one shot is fired, it is a prohib.

I am not sure how true that definition would be if the crank is not free turning. On a conventional gatling there is no trigger, the strike is cammed back and released during the unimpeded rotation. My thought was to make it so that the crank could not rotate a full turn but rather had to stop for every barrel and a single true trigger used to fire successively all barrels one at a time as each barrel stops over it. A true gatling does not have sears while my thought was that each barrel would have a sear so that turning the crank with out pulling the trigger would result only in loaded barrels rotating but not firing. Firing the gun would prevent the barrels rotating until the trigger was released

cheers mooncoon

 

[fingers284]

To the OP , I don't think you need to re-model your worm & gear setup, you just have to instal some sort of hammer interuptor.

Any time the topic of the Gatling and its legality comes up I find it very interesting. I have argued before in other threads, that I still think the NFA position (gatling is simply a multi-barreled action,not a full auto) is relevant. The new post c68 bureaucracy wouldn't recognize an earlier court ruling and made up thier own definition that we are left with now, until I win a lottery or someone else contends it in court again.

The literal legal definitions posted in this thread have got me thinking again, actually very alarmed at the consequeces of not challenging the CFC on this. It'a not often I get a tin hat on very tight but I have one now. Tiriaq and Mooncoon, I have read your post for years and while I don't always agree, 99% of the time I do. I will be sending PM's to both of you shortly for your thoughts and would appreciate your input.

I have inspected the outside of an original Gatling but have never had the pleasure of looking inside. The following is from a lot of reading and studying plans and published drawings. As for the Gatling not haveing a trigger, it does, in some drawings it is called a "firing lockout" and it is a crank shaped handle that protrudes out the back of the frame. It blocks the firing pin plunger from falling though the gap after it falls off of the sear at the end of the cocking cam during rotation. As the firing pin contiues around with rotation , the lockout prevents it from returning to fired position until the shell is ejected by the same rotation. I read somewhere that in the early models the lockout stopped rotation totaly but this was changed in later models so that the gun could be unloaded of live ammo by continuing to rotate the barrels.