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[Leafsnail]

That gatling shotgun would take your arms off as soon as you pressed the trigger.

But it would be AWESOME.

[cowofdoom78963]

That... is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.

[Neonivek]

How did we got from stupid to awsome?

In what way wouldn't a gatling shotgun be a good weapon other then cost?

[Leafsnail]

Kickback?

[Aqizzar]

I don't imagine you're actually supposed to hold the thing, but you can't put anything past weapon designers.  Hence Metal Storm, because really, you can never put too many bullets into one hole.  A pistol that expends its entire magazine in one trigger-pull, and puts ever shot within a millimeter grouping?  Where do I sign?

I think the "atomic cannon" idea was alright, but it was used in reverse of its most awesome configuration. Instead of using conventional explosives to launch a nuclear shell at an enemy, it should've used a nuclear explosion to hurl a conventional shell at the enemy. No, I can't imagine any configuration in which the whole thing didn't have to be rebuilt after every shot. But think of the possibilities.

My God, it's like an even dumber version of the Orion Engine.  It'd make one Hell of a cannon though.

[Jackrabbit]

Mount that shotgun and automate it. In fact, I think that's just what they did.

[Cthulhu]

Kickback?

Those aren't for holding, they get mounted on vehicles.  No one holds a chaingun to shoot it.  They did something fancy with the one in Predator so it didn't break him in half.

[cowofdoom78963]

Those aren't for holding.

Then what are those handles for?

[mattie2009]

 Gentlemen, I present to you, the concept of a Gatling Shotgun.

 Because quite frankly each weapon didn't fill the air with enough projectiles on their own.

Tie three of those things together. You still won't have enough dakka.
Duel Wield them. Still not enough dakka.
Make them twice as big. Nope. Need moar dakka.
Make every single pellet of the shells into a ball covered in spikes and fill all of them to bursting. Maybe enough dakka.

[Aqizzar]

Those aren't for holding.

Then what are those handles for?

Selling the concept to investors.  Adoption boards don't give a shit, it's the impressive weapons that win out in the end.  And nothing says pizazz like a chain-motor shotgun you can carry.  Even if you really can't.

[Duke 2.0]

Kickback?

Those aren't for holding, they get mounted on vehicles.  No one holds a chaingun to shoot it.  They did something fancy with the one in Predator so it didn't break him in half.

I believe that was called a Microgun, as the Vulcan cannon was the first standard uses in anti-aircraft roles later scaled down to the Minigun for mounted support to be later scaled down to the Microgun which was to be used like modern heavy machine guns that you place on the ground before firing.
 Still, almost light enough to hold while firing it.

[Aqizzar]

A ha ha ha nooo.  There has never been such a weapon, and even if there was, the Predator didn't use it.  That was a mock up made from prop-bits, powered by an electric cord running up his pants.  Even just cycle firing blanks like it did, they had to stuff like 50 pounds of crap in his backpack so he didn't fall over.  And that was Jesse "The Body" Ventura, former pro-wrestler and Navy diver.

[DJ]

Those aren't for holding, they get mounted on vehicles.  No one holds a chaingun to shoot it.  They did something fancy with the one in Predator so it didn't break him in half.

I think even a vehicle would feel kickback from an effin' chain shotgun.

[mattie2009]

Those aren't for holding, they get mounted on vehicles.  No one holds a chaingun to shoot it.  They did something fancy with the one in Predator so it didn't break him in half.

I think even a vehicle would feel kickback from an effin' chain shotgun.

I think that the vehicle in question would be thrown backwards into the nearest wall.

[Sean Mirrsen]

All that firepower, and it can still be nonlethal...

Spoiler: As nonlethal as having several hundred of these strike you at once (click to show/hide)