Puckle Gun (Wiki)[1718]

The Puckle gun (also known as the defence gun) was a primitive crew-served, manually-operated flintlock^[1] revolver patented in 1718 by James Puckle, (1667–1724) a British inventor, lawyer and writer. It was one of the earliest weapons to be referred to as a "machine gun", being called such in a 1722 shipping manifest,^[2] though its operation does not match the modern use of the term. It was never used during any combat operation or war.^[3][4] Production was highly limited and may have been as few as two guns.

At a later public trial held in 1722, a Puckle gun was able to fire 63 shots in seven minutes (approximately nine rounds per minute) in the midst of a driving rain storm.^[1][8] A rate of 1 round in less than 7 seconds compared to musketeers of the period, who reload in between 12 and 30 seconds plus re-aiming; it was however inferior in fire rate to earlier repeating weapons such as the Kalthoff repeater which fired up to six times faster at about 1 per second plus re-aiming.

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