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Got six SKS’s taking up space in your closet? Want a Gatling gun? Done…

So yeah, the Rock Island Auction house’s Regional Firearms Auction is this weekend and they have the normal collection of odds, ends, and in-betweens. One of which is a six-barreled, six-actioned, Gatling gun made from a half dozen Chinese Norinco SKS Type 53 rifles. The gun fires by a crank located on the right hand side of the device that turned the whole assembly as it rotates.

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They look to be fitted with 30-round aftermarket mags which would give it a ready capacity of some 180-ish rounds of 7.62x39mm (bring on the Wolf!). The guns look like they are in pretty poor condition with pitted metal showing on most and all have very different serials.

Ian over at Forgotten Weapons calls it the “Redneck Oblitorator”

Value is expected to start at $800, which may be a little high considering what we have here.

Whats the Goldblum line? Oh wait….

The Gatling Gun

The Gatling Gun, invented by a young man from North Carolina for the Union Army brought about the beginnings of modern warfare and still haunts the battlefield today.

Modern warfare is defined by the advent of the higher-level killing machines, such as the machine gun. The father of the machine gun (not withstanding Hiram Maxim) was Dr Richard Gatling. Gatling was the son of a North Carolina farmer. In his twenties he invented a steamship prop and a planting device known as a wheat drill. He moved from the south and marketed his inventions. Seeing an opportunity in the Civil War, he founded the Gatling Gun Company in 1862 and promptly began marketing the weapon.

More at my column at Firearms Talk.com

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