While we were visiting the Institute of Military Technology, we took a few minutes to check out their two 5-barrel Nordenfelt guns and chat with Joe from GardnerGuns.com about them. The Nordenfelt was one of the early manually-operated "machine guns" not seen much in the United States (the Gatling being much more common), but it was a popular and successful design in the rest of the world. We think the Nordenfelt (and its contemporaries like the Gardner, Gatling, Lowell, and others) are fantastically cool machines - they are the pinnacle of what can be done with a strictly manually-operated repeating firearm. Really, who wouldn't want one in their living room?