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Gatling gun

noun as in machine gun

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Guardsmen — about 1,000 weekend warriors — stood in the hot sun, rifles at the ready alongside the Gatling gun they brought, facing the railroad strikers camped out in the depot with their wives and children.

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So it was a Gatling gun of wins, just one after another.

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“It’s the freedom state of Florida. If they disagree with the governor, he brings out the Gatling gun.”

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Video from the engagement appears to show one drone engaged by an air defense system known as a C-RAM, which fires a six-barreled Gatling gun up to 75 rounds per second.

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He ascended to the NFL beat at the Washington Times, and one colleague later wrote that Hurney’s “prose had the lyrical quality of a Gatling gun, but he could find news.”

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