Full Auto Coke Bottle Gatling

[CharlesHarris]

We once built a SCUBA tank powered paintball machinegun mounted in a sidecar for a Harley-Davidson police motorcycle and fired with hand controls by the motorman, which fired "paintballs" filled with a mixture of CS gas and pepper spray for riot control. Effective range of the gun was over 100 metres, but the firing force was so great that about 20% of the projectiles cracked. corkscrewed and streamed agent during an erratic, shorter flight, which overall produced an enhanced area effect. Experiments were also done freezing the projectiles to reduce rupture, and glancing them off the pavement, in front of the target area to disperse the agent, which worked very well, but if the gun was fired directly at someone within a short range of 25 metres or so, its 300 fps velocity was potentially lethal.

DC Metropolitan Police still have one. I don't know where the others went...