Les Jones

Guns > They Call a Tommy Gun a Chicago Typewriter...

so I guess you could call a Gatling Gun a New York typewriter.

Clayton Cramer - The Right of Newspapers To Keep And Bear Machine Guns:

I've read that the New York Times ordered up some Gatling guns to protect the newspaper during the New York City Draft Riots, during the Civil War, when enraged antiwar protesters upset about the draft murdered hundreds (some say, thousands) of blacks, burning down black orphanages with the children inside. A few years back, an acquaintance who invited me to speak at Columbia University told me that he had actually seen a photograph of a Gatling gun on the roof of the New York Times building. I was a bit skeptical, but I now have considerable evidence that the Gatling gun was on the roof only because the strafing run hadn't yet been invented.

All the following sources agree that the New York Times had Gatling guns set up to deal with rioters; using the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms to protect the First Amendment right of a free (non-smoldering) press.

John Swinton, Memories of the New York Times, New York Times, March 27, 1898; Paul Wahl and Donald R. Toppel, The Gatling Gun 24-25 (Arco Publishing Co., 1965); Lawrence Milton Woods, British Gentlemen In The Wild West: The Era Of The Intensely English Cowboy 42 (Collier Macmillan, 1989); Don Carlos Seitz, Horace Greeley: Founder Of The New York Tribune 209 (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1926). Not only was Henry Raymond, the publisher of the Times manning the guns, so was Winston Churchill's grandfather, who was part owner.

Hat tip to SayUncle.