A New new gun which can fire 5000 shots in 13 minutes, was recently tested in Washington. The Gardner is a machine gun, like the Gatling. It has two barrels made of steel, encased in brass. This is an auxiliary to small arms, and is simply a gun which, by the ingenuity of the designer, is calculated to do the work of a number of muskets, and do it more rapidly, and elfectivly. It cannot probably shoot so accurately as a musket, but, if properly handled, must be fearfully destructive, especially when directed against a line or an advancing column. Its calibre is 0.45 inch, and the same. cartridges are used in ordinaiy practice. The charge is 70 grains of powder, and the ball weighs 405 grains. It is mounted on a small fielfcarriage, and is light enough to be carried by two men. The whoie length of thgp» gun is only four feet. It can be fired 500 times in a minute.
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Patea Mail, 4 September 1880, Page 2
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