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Use this tag when you see a gun with multiple rotating barrels.

If a Gatling gun is small enough to be (conceivably) carried by a roughly human-sized individual, it should also be tagged with minigun.

The Gatling Gun is a hand crank driven multi-barreled gun invented in 1861 by Richard Jordan Gatling. Modern rotary guns are based on the same principle of using a rotating formation of multiple barrels to simultaneously load bullets, fire, and eject spent casings in different barrels to increase fire rates. Given the fundamental similarity in operation, "Gatling gun" is now widely understood to refer to any rotating multi-barreled gun, rather than just the hand-cranked 1861 weapon.

See also

• tag_group:weapons
• machine_gun
• minigun
• ranged weapon