Gatling gun injuries & most importantly evidence

Feb 26, 2013 21:49


Hi, I've had a dig through the injuries to order tag and have a pretty good grip on the type of injuries I want but having have googled every variation I can think of around Gatling guns, ballistics, gun shot wounds, historic injuries I still can't make sense of the part about how someone would tell how the victim got injured. All I seem to get is ( Read more... )

1860-1869, ~weapons: firearms, ~medicine: injuries: gunshot wounds, ~medicine: injuries: historical, ~psychology & psychiatry: ptsd

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stormwreath February 27 2013, 04:42:43 UTC
A grand total of twelve Gatling guns were used in the American Civil War, by the Union army around Petersburg in 1864. They were privately purchased: the US Army did not adopt the weapon officially until 1866 ( ... )

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stormwreath February 27 2013, 04:49:38 UTC
Just to add:

it's fairly easy to keep this from being an out and out police investigation

I'm pretty sure that at a modern hospital, any patient coming in with any sort of gunshot wound will be the subject of a police investigation. The hospital staff will report it automatically. Especially in Britain, if your mention of MI6 mean that's where the fic is set. Your MI6 person probably could hush it up anyway, but it would be a major task for them, not just something they could casually wave away.

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tarvae February 27 2013, 16:33:40 UTC
Fortunately for my sanity, the person with the ID has a pretty good supply of BS to apply to the police if needed and as the world is not that close to the one we live in there is a much greater degree of leeway given to people from certain families. But you're right, it's not a matter of waving it off, they'll need to pull in favours and make calls and possibly answer for it later.

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tarvae February 27 2013, 16:29:55 UTC
Thanks, that is really helpful about the ball shot and realistic rate of fire compared to the theoretical one.

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nuranar February 27 2013, 17:33:50 UTC
Thanks for the factual info about the Gatling! Including specifics about their use.

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