Durge discharging his gatling gauntlet Typically favored by bounty hunters and mercenaries, a gatling gauntlet was a weapon system. Its design incorporated multiple barrels affixed to a wrist-mounted band, enabling it to launch diverse forms of ordnance, varying from diminutive metallic rounds to significantly larger piercing projectiles.
The widespread adoption of the gatling gauntlet is attributed to the bounty hunter Durge during the era of the Clone Wars. Subsequently, it experienced a resurgence in popularity among bounty hunters and mercenaries like Bar-Kooda and Glott throughout the Galactic Civil War.
In our reality, the designation "Gatling gun," which denotes multi-barreled automatic weaponry, originates from Richard Jordan Gatling and the early machine gun he devised. This connection could imply that the Gatling gauntlet is an unintentional allusion to Earth.