Gardner gun

The Gardner gun was an early type of mechanical machine gun. The original version had two barrels but it was also built with five barrels or a single barrel. It was hand-cranked and was fed from a vertical hopper magazine. When the crank was turned, a feed arm positioned a cartridge in the breech, the bolt closed and the weapon fired. Turning the crank further opened the breechblock and extracted the spent case.

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