I watched a show the other night on the History channel about the history(duh) of the machine gun... while discussing the Gatling gun, they said that Custer had been issued five of them, but chose to leave the 800lb each weapons behind when he went out that time... would it have made a difference, or would the army just ended up having to deal with a tribe that was armed with machine guns later on? Makes you kinda go Hmmm...