Machine Gun trivia: Hello stagers, Today we'll switch from the rod and reel to the machine gun. When was the first machine gun invented 🤔 As the Stepping Wolf lyrics go " Fire All Of...

Commander Bell Loc: Lafayette Indiana

Hello stagers,
Today we'll switch from the rod and reel to the machine gun.
When was the first machine gun invented 🤔
As the Stepping Wolf lyrics go " Fire All Of Your Guns At Once " and see if you can answer today's trivia question.
Commander Bell out

bknecht Loc: Northeast pa

Have no idea CB, I’m pretty sure the gattlin gun was around in the 1870’s or so. Don’t know if that qualifies as a machine gun though. Love Born to be Wild, an absolute classic!

Jer Loc: N. Illinois 🇺🇸

Commander Bell wrote:

Hello stagers,
Today we'll switch from the rod and reel to the machine gun.
When was the first machine gun invented 🤔
As the Stepping Wolf lyrics go " Fire All Of Your Guns At Once " and see if you can answer today's trivia question.
Commander Bell out

I’m going with the model 1862 Gatling Gun. I believe the model number applies to the date of its operational debut.

ghaynes1 Loc: Strawberry Plains, TN

Commander Bell wrote:

Hello stagers,
Today we'll switch from the rod and reel to the machine gun.
When was the first machine gun invented 🤔
As the Stepping Wolf lyrics go " Fire All Of Your Guns At Once " and see if you can answer today's trivia question.
Commander Bell out

1918. A Brigadier General in WWI named Thompson. It was to counter trench warfare.

E.pa.al Loc: Martin's Creek

Invented by Maxim but couldn't tell you what year. 1860s?? Maybe

Gordon Loc: Charleston South Carolina

ghaynes1 wrote:

1918. A Brigadier General in WWI named Thompson. It was to counter trench warfare.

That's why it was caller the Tommy Gun.

Mauwehu Loc: Norwalk Ct

Commander Bell wrote:

Hello stagers,
Today we'll switch from the rod and reel to the machine gun.
When was the first machine gun invented 🤔
As the Stepping Wolf lyrics go " Fire All Of Your Guns At Once " and see if you can answer today's trivia question.
Commander Bell out

I’ll go with the 19th century.
What impressed me was the technology developed that allowed a machine gun to be mounted on a prop plane that would shoot between the propeller whirling.

Commander Bell Loc: Lafayette Indiana

Hello stagers,
This answer will surprise you.
The first machine gun was actually made in China in the 17th century.
It was a hopper filled spring loaded cannon.
It is said be highly unsuccessful and could not be mass-produced and was very short lived.
The Gattlin gun, that we are all familiar with, was the first successful machine gun that could be mass-produced.
Thanks for playing along.
I'll shoot for some more trivia soon.
Commander Bell out

ghaynes1 Loc: Strawberry Plains, TN

Commander Bell wrote:

Hello stagers,
This answer will surprise you.
The first machine gun was actually made in China in the 17th century.
It was a hopper filled spring loaded cannon.
It is said be highly unsuccessful and could not be mass-produced and was very short lived.
The Gattlin gun, that we are all familiar with, was the first successful machine gun that could be mass-produced.
Thanks for playing along.
I'll shoot for some more trivia soon.
Commander Bell out

General Thompson would have been unhappy to learn the Chinese beat him out. I think he considered his Tommy Gun the first one invented.

Mudbugger Loc: North Central Indiana, just north of Kokomo.

The Puckle gun was the first that I am familiar with.
The Gatling gun, is NOT a machine gun, neither in design nor by NFA34/ATF definition. The GE minigun, an electrically enhanced version of the Gatling gun, is classified as a machine gun, due to continuous operation by one pull and hold of the trigger/switch/fire control.

Mud