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Gardner gun

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Gardner 2 barrel Machine Gun (1879)

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US Armament Gardner Gun 45/70

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Pratt & Whitney's Improved Gardner Gun

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Gardner 5 Barrel Machine Gun 1882

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2 barrel Gardner Gun 1880 (Parkhurst, Pratt & Whitney)

The Gardner gun was an early type of mechanical machine gun. It had one, two or five barrels, was fed from a vertical magazine or hopper and was operated by a crank. When the crank was turned, a feed arm positioned a cartridge in the breech, the bolt closed and the weapon fired. Turning the crank further opened the breechblock and extracted the spent case.