Palmyra resident re-creates
Civil War-era Gatling guns
GATLING from page 1
19 years and, for the next six
months, toured the Smithsonian
and other museums that had origi
nal Gatlings on display.
He made rubbings and took
measurements of the guns. Upon
his homecoming, and with the help
of a machinist friend, Pugsley be
gan building his dream gun.
“I learned to build everything
from scratch, right down to the
screws,” Pugsley said. “You can’t
just go to Ace Hardware and buy
Gatling gun pai^s.”
Eight years later, Pugsley crafts
a 9-millimeter, 32-inch barrel ver
sion, as well as the full-scale 54
inch one and three sizes in between.
The 54-inch model requires
about 1,000 hours to build. Pugsley
produces only two a year, despite
frequent 84-hour work weeks. Cur
rently, he’s got five on back order.
Weighing 300 pounds, the
gun’s essential accessory is either
a two- or four-wheeled white oak
carriage, called a caisson. The
gun’s 10 barrels spit out a steady
barrage of bullets as quickly as its
operator can turn the crank. Fully
dressed, the gun costs a minimum
of $55,000, a fraction of the
$250,000 an original fetches.
Pugsley said taking on a
Gatling-armed soldier in die Civil
War while equipped with the stan
dard muzzle-loader of the day was
akin to squaring off against other
world technology far more ad
vanced than today’s guns.
“It would be like going against
a phaser-equipped Martian while
carrying an M-16,” he said.
Also among Pugsley’s arsenal
of weapon-building know-how is
the Hotchkiss revolving cannon,
another dirowback to the Civil War
era. The five-barrel artillery piece
“comes in all sizes, shapes and cali
bers.”
Pugsley said he built 1 - to 6-foot
barrel versions of the crank-oper
ated cannon.
To do what he does, Pugsley is
federally licensed by the Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
His annual $3,000 Class 10 license
permits him to build approved
bombs, missiles and mines.
Of course, all Pugsley wants to
build are the Gatling and Hotchkiss
guns he calls his children.
Pugsley crafts all his wares with
the $250,000 worth of milling,
tooling and welding equipment he
has cramped in a 24-by-30-foot
garage on his small acreage 6 miles
southeast of Palmyra.
Unassembled drums, center
shafts and other Gatling parts
awaiting completion are strewn
among the blocks of brass and steel
similar to those from which they
were milled.
Pugsley said he could charge
more for what he does, but didn’t
want to because, unlike his wealthy
patrons, money wasn’t his motiva
tion.
“I’m the only one in the world
who does this,” Pugsley said. “If
it’s going around and it’s got more
than one barrel, I made it.”
Lied gets small fund raise;
UPC given half its request
By Sarah Baker
Staff Reporter
The Lied Center for Performing
Arts got drastically less funding than
it requested, while the University Pro
gram Council received almost half its
budget increase request from the Com
mittee for Fees Allocation Tuesday
night.
The Lied Center requested a 40
percent increase in its 1997-98 bud
get request, an amount totaling
$128,000. Instead, CFA allocated the
Lied a 5 percent increase from the
1996-97 budget, totaling $96,233.
Members of CFA said they had
various reasons for not approving the
Lied’s request. According to a sub
committee report, the council didn’t
think the Lied Center’s schedule war
ranted an increase greater than 5 per
cent.
“It is difficult to determine the Lied
Center’s need for additional funding,
and thus, we could not justify an allo
cation increase of 40 percent,” the re
port stated.
The subcommittee stated that the
Lied’s budget gave students too many
discounts on. tickets.
Students can get tickets for 50 per
cent off the public price. However,
when they buy tickets in bulk, students I
get up to a 60 percent discount. In
1994-95, students paid only 41 per
cent of tickets’ true value.
The way the budget request was
written also complicated the
subcommittee’s decision.
“This task was especially challeng
ing since many specific amounts have
been recatcgorized since last year and
major portions of next year’s budget
are still undetermined,” the subcom
mittee stated.
Also discussed at the meeting was
the University Program Council’s bud
get recommendation. UPC asked for
an increase of $9,090, which is a 9.6
percent increase from last year’s bud
get.
CFA later recommended and ap
proved a 5.62 percent increase for
UPC, or $6,300.
The committee based its decision
on the essential work that UPC does
for university students. The commit
tee didn’t outline how UPC should
spend the money.
“The new budget allows for the
UPC to allocate its funds in any area
that it chooses,” CFA member Tina
Carter said. “Needs change on cam
pus from year to year; that’s why we
didn’t specify funds.”
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I Defense delivers video evidence
TRIAL from page 1
Several witnesses previously testi
fied that three shots were fired.
Lahners showed there were gaps in the
wood fence, but Chief Public Defender
Scott Helvie said the gaps were only
about /4-inch wide.
Nebraska State Patrol Sgt. Mark
Bohaty, a firearms and tool-mark ex
aminer with the state crime lab, was
Lahners’ last witness. Bohaty ran tests
on the bullet removed from Cole and
an empty bullet casing found in Willis
Brown and Abdul Muhammed’s
apartment.
Brown and Muhammed were,
friends of Washington, and they were
reportedly together the night of the
shooting.
Bohaty said the slug taken from
Cole was fired from a .38-caliber pis
tol. With markings on the bullet,
Bohaty could narrow the gun to seven
manufacturers.
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