{"id":3445,"date":"2011-04-26T14:04:26","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T18:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/?p=3445"},"modified":"2011-04-26T14:04:26","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T18:04:26","slug":"the-gatling-gun-slingshot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/the-gatling-gun-slingshot\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gatling Gun Slingshot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"gatling gun slingshot\" src=\"http:\/\/nerdapproved.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/gatling-gun-slingshot-590x328.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"328\" \/><br \/>\nJ\u00f6rg Sprave, the man that brought us the machete-shooting crossbow, is back with another piece of do-it-yourself weaponry that nobody should actually do themselves\u2026ever.<\/p>\n<p>The gun works with a hand-crank repeating action and is theoretically  capable of firing 960 rounds per minute. In reality however, it will  probably take you 10 minutes to reload all eight 20mm balls.<\/p>\n<p>So, like the machete crossbow before it, the Gatling gun slingshot is  a completely impractical and incredibly dangerous weapon to operate.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the video below and let us know what you think.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/qxtHtPK2MH8?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/qxtHtPK2MH8?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J\u00f6rg Sprave, the man that brought us the machete-shooting crossbow, is back with another piece of do-it-yourself weaponry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-viral-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3446,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3445\/revisions\/3446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}