Alors! Certainment no one needs zuch firepower!
well, we know it has never been fired...
badda bump...
Would love to have a modern work up of this in .22 short just for giggles.
"Yeah, I own a chain gun....right here in my pocket."
Interesting invention for sure. But as a black powder enthusiast I know traditional black powder fouls a barrel in short order making it harder to reload with each successive shot.
Being caseless means the projectile left behind fouling matter right where the next bullet loads. I doubt if it made it through the entire chain of bullets before it jammed as the breach would be quite dirty after a while.
In other words, I do not think it could be fired as fast as the trigger was pulled as the article asserts. Now if a bore brush were ran down the barrel between every few shots, then that would make a difference.
You cannot compare this to a machine gun that shoots cased bullets as the casing’s simply being in the breach keeps it clean enough so when ejected the next round can be easily placed by the mechanism.
I’ve worked with jammed projectiles in a black powder propellant muzzle loader. The round binds up quickly when the bore is fouled. I suspect this chain gun jammed also and was a serious reason why the weapon never became popular.
Ban it! It’s a black gun and scary....
Yes indeed, “chain guns was a rare thing”.
Then there's the issue of "unload and show clear."
No mention in the article of the Volcanic cartridge of 1855 or the Volcanic pistol, forerunners of both Smith & Wesson and Winchester firearms. Same type of cartridge.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_Repeating_Arms
More click-bait from American Shooting Urinal, stealing information from Forgotten Weapons and not attributing it to them (although they did post a video from FW).
They even parrot an error from Forgotten Weapons. There is no historical information stating the caliber of any Guycot variant but it is highly unlikely to have been 6.5mm because it would have used the Gaupillat-Collette cartridge, which was never made in 6.5mm.