Automatic firearm

But as I have discussed here, uh, Connecticut was pushing a law to, uh, so they're calling it the Glock Ban, which is Connecticut Public Act 25-41.

As I've already said, known as the Glock Ban, uh, this law would ban any firearm that could be easily convertible to full auto, which is already illegal.

But this would effectively ban the arguably most popular pistol on the planet, the Glock brand firearm, so because of a little thing known as a switch, which affec- affects primarily just Glocks, for now.

Oh.

Holy crap, it was fun.

[laughs]

If ever I went select fire, I can't justify full auto.

Give me a three round burst.

Unlike many other movie weapons, Old Painless seems remarkably plausible, but does such a weapon really exist, and could you wield it the way it's almost always shown in movies? Well strap on your bulletproof vest as we dive into how humanity went from the Gatling gun to the incredible M61 Vulcan which, in turn, birthed one of cinema's most badass and misunderstood weapons.

The direct ancestor of the minigun was also one of history's first successful automatic weapons, the iconic Gatling gun.

Patented by American inventor Dr. Richard J. Gatling in 1861, the Gatling gun featured ten barrels which rotated around a central shaft, driven by a hand crank.

As a barrel rotated in the top position, a cartridge dropped from a gravity-fed hopper and was automatically loaded into the chamber.