[anamax]

Radio, TV, cameras

That said, breech loaders were used by the British during the Revolutionary War (the Ferguson Rifle) and multiple shots from a single barrel using multiple "touch holes" was well known.

And then there's Puckle's gun.

[lazide]

The Gatling gun also predates any widespread gun control.

Notably, the Gatling gun is still legal almost everywhere, including California (lulz!).

If that is legal, what is the actual point of 99% if the rest of the bans, etc?

[harimau777]

The main point is that there isn't an epidemic of gatling gun crimes in America.

[lazide]

There isn’t an epidemic of any other gun crime, by the numbers.

[ceejayoz]

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/10/31/1209683...

> The U.S. has the 28th-highest rate of deaths from gun violence in the world: 4.31 deaths per 100,000 people in 2021. That was more than seven times as high as the rate in Canada, which had 0.57 deaths per 100,000 people — and about 340 times higher than in the United Kingdom, which had 0.013 deaths per 100,000.

https://everytownresearch.org/graph/the-u-s-gun-homicide-rat...

> The US gun homicide rate is 26 times that of other high-income countries.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26551975/

> US homicide rates were 7.0 times higher than in other high-income countries, driven by a gun homicide rate that was 25.2 times higher. For 15- to 24-year-olds, the gun homicide rate in the United States was 49.0 times higher. Firearm-related suicide rates were 8.0 times higher in the United States, but the overall suicide rates were average. Unintentional firearm deaths were 6.2 times higher in the United States. The overall firearm death rate in the United States from all causes was 10.0 times higher. Ninety percent of women, 91% of children aged 0 to 14 years, 92% of youth aged 15 to 24 years, and 82% of all people killed by firearms were from the United States.

We have more firearm homicides per capita than other prosperous countries have total homicides via all methods.

[lazide]

We were talking specific models, yes?

[ceejayoz]

You said "any other gun crime", so no?

How much do you think of this disparity is due to Gatling guns?