The U.S. Army has ordered a prototype of a weapon designed in a garage in Colorado Springs. The weapon is electrically fired, has four barrels and can fire all four rounds at once in a single devastating salvo.
The weapon was developed by inventor Martin Grier and sports four vertically stacked barrels encased in a single block of steel, an electric actuator firing system, four-round blocks of ammunition, according to the Colorado Springs Gazette. None of these three features are incorporated into current small arms, although heavier weapons such as the M61 Vulcan 20-millimeter Gatling gun and M134 Gatling gun are both electrically fired.
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