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To: SiouxPal who wrote (201288)	12/6/2010 9:49:52 AM
From: T L Comiskey	Respond to of 361804

re...the 'smart gun' thats gonna win.. the hearts and minds of the sand monkey's.. ....................................... place yur bests Will His-story...repeat...? The Gatling gun is one of the best known early rapid-fire weapons and a forerunner of the modern machine gun. It is well known for its use by the Union forces during the American Civil War in the 1860s, which was the first time it was employed in combat. Later it was also famously used in the assault on San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War.[1] Developed following the 1851 invention of the Fafschamps mitrailleuse by the Belgian Army, the Gatling gun was designed by the American inventor Dr. Richard J. Gatling in 1861 and patented in 1862.[2] 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