Found my next black powder gun

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alemonkey

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It even shoots 45-70 so I already have the dies and bullet mould!

http://www.dixiegunworks.com/product_info.php?products_id=14858

18145 FULL SCALE REPLICA MODEL 1874 GATLING GUN $45,000.00

These extremely high quality reproduction Gatling Guns are made by an individual who works from the original Colt blueprints and all parts interchange with the originals. They are exact replicas and perfectly finished with all polished surfaces flat and true. He makes these at a rate of about two per year and they are almost works of art. This is a reproduction of the Model 1874 camel gun model in .45/70 caliber. It has 10 tapered round barrels with hexagonal sections at the front for removal. The barrels are 18 1/8" long and are perfectly blued. The barrels are joined with a circular brass disk near the muzzle and also at the breech. They rotate on a steel axis. Head space for the barrels is adjusted by an nut located at the front of the axis. The body of the gun is made of highly polished brass. The top of the body is engraved "CAL. 45." A circular cast plaque is attached to the top of the body and contains the patent dates and the manufacturer's name as the originals do. The rails for the gun are made of steel and have a crinkle type paint applied. An oscillating mechanism is present on this gun as is a screw traverse system. Elevation is by means of a large wheel located at the rear of the yoke. The yoke is also made of highly polished brass. The gun is mounted on a tripod with walnut legs and polished brass fittings. The gun is in perfect working order. The feed mechanism present on top of the body is a Bruce type. Serial number is 49. Overall condition is new in the shipping crates. Modern long gun rules apply

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what are the laws considering it's rate of fire? I see it's probably not treated as a machine gun but, doesn't it pretty much fire as one?
 
Gatlin gun is not a machine gun. You can buy it or make it. I seen a 10-22
gatlin gun few years back. It took two 10-22 mounted together and a crank pulled the triggers.
You can always buy the kit or blueprints. You can always buy one outright. They make a small gatlin that shoots 22s. They are a hoot.
 
Looks like it would take a couple guys to muscle it to the range. Our range master would fuss about the back boards being chewed up. I'd like to have a Quigly rifle too, but $1800 is a little more than my weekly allowance.
 
There are no restrictions based on rate of fire. The regulations on automatic weapons are based on trigger function: if the gun continues to load and fire with the trigger back then it's automatic; if you need to pull the trigger to get the gun to fire then it's not, even if it ejects the spent cartrdge and loads another automatically. The Gatling gun does not load and fire by itself; the operator must turn the crank.
 
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