Here’s a little bit of history about the gatling gun. It was designed by the American inventor Dr. Richard J. Gatling in 1861 and patented November 4, 1862. Gatling wrote that he created it to reduce the size of armies and so reduce the number of deaths by combat and disease, and to show how futile war is. Continue reading for more strange and rare weapons you probably never knew existed.

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