like yeah it's not what killed Abe but like just look at the thing, a nine barrel fuckin' electro-blunderbuss
electro-blunderbuss
Wouldn't it be a pepper-pot? I thought that's what the really ridiculous barrel count guns were called.
idk I'm not a gun guy, googling it it looks like the term would be a pepper-gun, but that in itself is a subset of volley guns
also holy shit Leonardo da Vinci designed some such 'organ' guns
I guess that shouldn't surprise me since he lived when gunpowder was a thing but I guess I just figured gunpowder warfare wasn't as big of a deal in Europe for another hundred years or so
The french actually had artillery pieces as early as the 14th century (~1326) and canons were incredibly impactful during the 100 years war (1337–1453)
Leonardo comes in to dick around with them more than a century after they had already became part of conventional warfare.
points for being cool as shit but it's not the one that rid the world of a fascist scumbag
Iirc the guy who assassinated Garfield chose a gun he thought would look cool in a museum later. And by god for style points I reeeealy wish this had been the one for Abe
