But in April 1862, the Battle of Shiloh took place, registering 24,000 casualties, and that was followed in September by Antietam, still the single most lethal day of battle in American history.

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As a young boy, Keith Takacs knew he wanted a Gatling gun. The rapid-fire weapon, a precursor to modern machine guns patented in 1862, looked cool in old cowboy movies. Fast-forward a few decades ...

Gatling guns, named for inventor Richard Gatling, are hand-driven machine guns that trace their history back to the Civil War. Fulcrum Concepts was founded in 2008.

The Warthog’s GAU-8 Gatling gun can carry an astonishing 1,174 rounds of ammunition, which is stored in the aircraft’s fuselage. This capacity allows the A-10 to engage multiple targets or to ...