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    The Gatling gun of the civil war time frame was not the gun from the 1880s or 1890 that people remember from cowboy movies. The original gun used steel cylinders that where loaded with black powder and the ball with a percussion cap. After firing the cylinder had to be reloaded almost like each was its own gun. The

    Missing the M-973 or SUSV.