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The Puckle Defence Gun was a revolver based cannon invented in 1718 by British inventor and lawyer James Puckle.
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Puckle Gun was a tripod-mounted, single-barreled flintlock weapon fitted with a multishot revolving cylinder. It was intended for shipboard use to prevent boarding. It had a pre-loaded cylinder which held several (8-11) charges.
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Puckle demonstrated two versions of his basic design - one, intended for use against Christian enemies, fired conventional cannon balls, while the second variant, designed to be used against the Muslim Turks, fired square bullets. The square bullets were considered to be more damaging. The square bullets, however, were discontinued due to their unpredictable flight pattern.
The Puckle gun was fired in a similar fashion to a conventional flintlock musket; however, after each shot, a crank on the threaded shaft at the rear would be unscrewed to release the cylinder to turn freely. The cylinder would then be advanced by hand to the next loaded chamber, and the crank turned back again to lock the cylinder into the breech of the fixed barrel. The flintlock mechanism could then be primed for another shot.
According historical sources the gun was able to fire 63 shots in seven minutes which mean approximately nine rounds per minute. However there is no evidence that the gun were ever used in any battle.
Many members of the anti-gun community in the United States argue that the founding fathers could not have anticipated modern weaponry’s rate of fire when they wrote the 2nd Amendment. The existence of weapons like the Puckle Gun and the Girandoni air rifle prove that the gunsmiths of the 18th Century not only anticipated semi and fully-automatic weapons, they were actively trying and did to build them.
NOTE: The Operator with the "eye patch" may have been one of @SimonRL 's distant relatives, or is there a "Puckle" in the Family Tree?
Puckle gun - Wikipedia
The Puckle Gun or Defense Gun
Invented and patented in 1718, this early machine gun was designed to fire either round and square bullets, depending on who the enemy was...
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Patented in 1718, the Puckle gun was capable of firing 63 rounds in 7 minutes. That was previously unheard of, and all the more impressive because it is a large-bore tripod-mounted gun. Caliber of Puckle guns varied, but Ian says that for the most part they seems to be one inch or larger...
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The First
The Puckle Gun is one of those firearms of which only a couple of examples exist in the world, but which is covered in a great deal of introductory firearms books, usually in their section on the history of machine guns.This has led many to assume the Puckle Gun was some kind of proto-machine...
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Puckle Gun was a tripod-mounted, single-barreled flintlock weapon fitted with a multishot revolving cylinder. It was intended for shipboard use to prevent boarding. It had a pre-loaded cylinder which held several (8-11) charges.
Puckle Gun: A Machine Gun Built 70 Years Before The 2nd Amendment
The Puckle Gun is considered one of the first machine guns ever built. Join us for a closer look at this incredible weapon that set the stage for modern firearms seven decades before the 2nd amendment was written. (image source; Wikipedia) The Puckle gun (aka the Defence gun) was patented by...
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Puckle demonstrated two versions of his basic design - one, intended for use against Christian enemies, fired conventional cannon balls, while the second variant, designed to be used against the Muslim Turks, fired square bullets. The square bullets were considered to be more damaging. The square bullets, however, were discontinued due to their unpredictable flight pattern.
The Puckle gun was fired in a similar fashion to a conventional flintlock musket; however, after each shot, a crank on the threaded shaft at the rear would be unscrewed to release the cylinder to turn freely. The cylinder would then be advanced by hand to the next loaded chamber, and the crank turned back again to lock the cylinder into the breech of the fixed barrel. The flintlock mechanism could then be primed for another shot.
According historical sources the gun was able to fire 63 shots in seven minutes which mean approximately nine rounds per minute. However there is no evidence that the gun were ever used in any battle.
Many members of the anti-gun community in the United States argue that the founding fathers could not have anticipated modern weaponry’s rate of fire when they wrote the 2nd Amendment. The existence of weapons like the Puckle Gun and the Girandoni air rifle prove that the gunsmiths of the 18th Century not only anticipated semi and fully-automatic weapons, they were actively trying and did to build them.
NOTE: The Operator with the "eye patch" may have been one of @SimonRL 's distant relatives, or is there a "Puckle" in the Family Tree?