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Puckle gun
- "Master Puckle's gun fires more shots than an artillery brigade, and twice as fast."
- ―Le Chasseur describing the Puckle gun, 1754.[src]
The Puckle gun was a weapon invented by James Puckle, an Englishman, in 1718. It was a flintlock light cannon fed using a detachable revolver cylinder with a gas-seal breech.
Le Chasseur, a French spy also operating for the Assassins, was able to steal a blueprint from a British ship that had detailed instructions on assembling the cannon. This allowed Le Chasseur to build the weapon on Shay Cormac's ship, the Morrigan.
Trivia
- The Puckle gun's construction was hinted at by Woodes Rogers in Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, during the memory Mister Walpole, I Presume?.
- Historically, the Puckle gun was never used in naval ships nor it saw combat at all since the British High Command regarded it as a clumsy gun when it was introduced. In Fort Frederick, Puckle guns are seen mounted but the British in real life never used such a gun before.
- In real life, the Puckle gun operates more like a single-action revolver than a machine gun. After each shot, the cylinder is unlocked, rotated to the next chamber by hand, and re-locked for the next shot.