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  • Recoil

    A TALE OF TWO HISTORIES

    Nov 29, 2019 4 minutes
    BY ASHLEY HLEBINKSY

    Many inventions throughout history have seen multiple lives. A Model 1883 Gatling Gun, made in 1886, was fixed with belts and a motor in 1946 to become a test gun in what would become the Vulcan Project. A G30 semi-automatic rifle served as the basis for a prototype of the Winchester automatic rifle. Often the idea for an invention can have application in future technologies, either successful like the Gatling or unsuccessful like the G30. Regardless, their resurgence always makes a unique fusion of the past and the present. And the Cody Firearms Museum’s .30-caliber Thompson is no exception.

    THE STORY OF THIS GUN COLLIDES TWO WORLD WARS

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