I need some assistance from the community

I am building a tank and have a machine gun that really works well however I have ran into a small problem that I hope someone could help me and please post pics along with a description. I want to set it up to where the machine gun overheats and cannot be used until it cools down. I tried it with a counter and a timer with the counter counting the shots and I had a timer connected to it to shut down the machine gun but it still kept firing even though the timer had not even finished counting yet. any suggestions would be appreciated thanks all in advance.

Well, rather than ask us to post pictures on how to fix your logic, how about if you post pictures of the problem? It would be much easier to debug then. Off the top of my head, I'd say either the timer is set incorrectly (Count-Up will not trigger an ON signal until it's finished, Count-Down will send a signal UNTIL it's finished, and there are other options too), or the timer is in the wrong place in the logic cycle, so it's not actually stopping what you need it to stop. Your solution seems to me the best approach, so we just need to figure out where you went wrong in implementing it.