If by holes you mean barrels and they're all confined to a rotating cylinder then thats a minigun.
TF2 has that.

But please describe the gun in more detail if that wasn't it.

how short was it?

Originally posted by DarkCrystalMethod:

If by holes you mean barrels and they're all confined to a rotating cylinder then thats a minigun.
TF2 has that.

But please describe the gun in more detail if that wasn't it.

A minigun is a specific rotary machine gun with multiple barrels based on the (M61) Vulcan Cannon. Hence the name. Its a miniature Vulcan Gun. Some sources list the the full name as M134 Vulcan Minigun.

It makes no sense to call the TF2 weapon a minigun since its not a miniature version of a real life cannon.

Originally posted by Reddari:

Originally posted by DarkCrystalMethod:

If by holes you mean barrels and they're all confined to a rotating cylinder then thats a minigun.
TF2 has that.

But please describe the gun in more detail if that wasn't it.

A minigun is a specific rotary machine gun with multiple barrels based on the (M61) Vulcan Cannon. Hence the name. Its a miniature Vulcan Gun. Some sources list the the full name as M134 Vulcan Minigun.

It makes no sense to call the TF2 weapon a minigun since its not a miniature version of a real life cannon.

You're right, it's really quite a large gun - not "mini" in the slightest! I therefore propose it be renamed to "Megagun" in all future content.

Originally posted by HuskyDynamics:

Originally posted by Reddari:

A minigun is a specific rotary machine gun with multiple barrels based on the (M61) Vulcan Cannon. Hence the name. Its a miniature Vulcan Gun. Some sources list the the full name as M134 Vulcan Minigun.

It makes no sense to call the TF2 weapon a minigun since its not a miniature version of a real life cannon.

You're right, it's really quite a large gun - not "mini" in the slightest! I therefore propose it be renamed to "Megagun" in all future content.

It's short for Mini Gatling Gun. . . .

This seems to be one of those fire and forget topics.
I doubt OP will ever come back to give more detail.

yeah there's a sequential pipe gun that fires in 7 different directions sequentially out of 7 barrels arranged differently, i think one model that's automated and one that requires trigger pulls. it's a concept people tried in the 17th century alongside high capacity chain pistols like the lemat, but it didn't really take off as guns weren't exactly reliable enough to have something esoteric like a 7 position kata gun in general usage.

there were some non-functional replicas and prototypes but the creators sort of got into legal trouble and had to take everything down.

there were like one or two psuedo-fictional holy men/rogue assassins that carried a staff version of one in the sengoku era. the weapon disappeared and nobody found their body, though they did leave a fake wearing their clothes. unconfirmed reports of whether it was an 8 position gun or just 8 barrels, as he tended to swing it around like a quarterstaff and thus people didn't really see the barrels due to blurring common to staff techniques and its being disguised as a staff.

A sawn off shot gun for greater "scatter" effect.

otherwise not in existence that I know of.
You could modify a barrel to fire out through it with various shrapnel but I would not want to trust to its integrity on staying 'safe to user'.

Maybe the OP is referring to the 360 cannon in runescape