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It is worth reflecting on the fact that a Gatling gun is not an automatic-fire weapon. You have to crank it to load, fire, and extract successive rounds. One shot for each discrete advance of the crank. (Kind of like a double-action revolver.) Imagine the effect of one chambered in .45-70 Government (and there were).
The Gatling gun will fire round after round as long as you turn the crank. A machine gun just uses the gases from the rounds to "turn the crank."
Of course. But the point is that the Gatling gun is not "automatic." It will not fire continuously if a trigger is held back. (Of course, it has no trigger...just a crank.) It raises the question of whether it should be regulated as a fully automatic firearm.