Originally posted by Su-tehp
Ooh, ooh! I call dibs on Sandy's big freakin' gun!
Wait, he just told me he doesn't have it anymore... Gimme the minigun!
no need to "eat" the bullet, then, as you say

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since what everybody knows about hand-held miniguns comes from games or movies, let me introduce you to the only real one ever made, copied from don't remember where:
"The XM214 5.56mm Machine Gun was a terminated Research and Development project (1970-1971) for a six-barrel 5.56mm (.223 Cal.) Gatling type "mini-minigun". The XM214 was similar to the M134 "minigun" by General Electric Company (the same gun as the Air Force GAU-2B/A). It was electrically driven and could be installed on a pintle or in a turret mount. It was shown in a man-portable version in the movie Predator (1987) and in Jane's Weapon Systems of the same year there was an entry detailing the XM214. It had been tested by the Special Forces but rejected due to impractical weight. Availability today is extremely rare at best.
The weight of 45 lbs. is for the gun, motor, battery (good for 5,000 shots) and 500 shots. The gun, motor and battery weigh 15kg (33 lbs.). A tripod would weigh another 15 lbs. One 500-round "cassette" weighs 14 lbs. The cassettes may be worn in a special harness ( 5 lbs.) on the back of the gunner and are linked through a rugged flexible chute to the gun. Two cassettes can clamp to the gun (or to the harness) at once, and it automatically switches when the first cassette is empty.
RoF can be set between 3-round bursts or 10,000 rounds per minute. Unfortunately the recoil force is 110kg (242 lbs.) at 10,000 rpm which would knock you off your feet, but (assuming a linear relationship) if the RoF were 1,000 rpm then the recoil should be only 11kg (24 lbs.) which might be manageable. "
I let you do the maths ( 11kg, manageable, yeah, right, add that too the original weight of the weapon, plus the fact it's 11kg per bullet

), but to sum up -> grab the weapon somehow, put your back against a wall, press the trigger. Hop! you're crushed and well dead
