Who was James Puckle?

For every anti out there who insists that the second amendment doesn't cover machine guns because they didn't exist on July 4th, 1776, take a look at the following...

James Puckle was a London lawyer and was granted the following patent in 1718 for a Portable Gun. Notice the crank...


It would appear to be a "gattling" type gun in that it was cranked. Interestingly, he seems to indicate square bullets should be used for Turks and round bullets for Christians. I'm not really sure what the difference is/was, but that's what it says.

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