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On November 18, 1966 this gun launched a Martlet-2 to 180 km, a world record that still stands today.
By an " amazing " coincidence, several supersonic Mirage jets happened to be flying overhead, distracting everyone in the reviewing stands and drowning out the machine gun fire, just as the four assassin soldier launched their attack.
A monument consisting of a 104-millimetre gun from the German light cruiser stands at the south-eastern, Oxford Street entry of the park.
A captured gun from a German submarine was presented to the town to mark his bravery, and stands in the town's main square beside the War Memorial.
In 1966, the HARP gun fired a projectile to 112 miles high, a world record that still stands.
The boy runs away and Callahan stands over Scorpio, gun drawn.
The designation SU-85 is derived as follows: ' SU ' stands for the-self-propelled carriage, while " 85 " signifies the bore of the vehicle's armament, the 85 mm D-5T gun.
In the Quake II manual it says it stands for " Big, uh, freakin ’ gun ".
It stands as the worst mass-shooting in U. S. history until 2012 and spurs a series of debates on gun control and journalism ethics.
Jean stands by the fountain in the restaurant's foyer, pulls out the gun and fatally shoots himself.
He asks Krusty for help, but Krusty informs Bart that he has already helped the Duff Brewery set up free laser gun stands around Springfield.
Frankie emerges and stands over him, pointing his gun, but he is fatally wounded.
After he stands in the podium, the gun salute starts while the gun salute music is played.
* Shooting hot dogs into the stands using a pneumatic gun attached to his ATV.
* 1894: Austens gun shop burnt down where Victoria Gate now stands.
The Butler gun shop still stands in Carlisle.
' ZSU ' stands for Zenitnaya Samokhodnaya Ustanovka (), meaning " anti-aircraft self-propelled mount ", ' 57 ' stands for the bore of the armament in millimetres and ' 2 ' stands for the number of gun barrels.
Up to this time the II Corps had not lost a color nor a gun, although it had previously captured 44 stands of colors from the enemy.
The gun that killed five attackers with a single shot still stands, although now with graffiti running the length of the barrel.
The. 22 rifle was mounted onto two gun stands to help keep it steady, and the protective gear and target box he placed into his mouth were put in as part of the performance.
Conner stands in the way of the other officer ; McCabe takes his gun and shoots the officer.

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The fingers of his right hand twisted into a claw, but he didn't reach for the gun.
A glue gun ( shown at right ) is one method of applying hot adhesives.
The prototype Ob. 9 had a commander's cupola with DShK 1938 / 46 machine gun, but the production model has a square commander's hatch, opening to the right.
# Telstar Gemini ( 1978 ): Four pinball games and two light-gun games in color, light gun, two flipper buttons on left and right sides of case, pinball launch button and field adjustment sliders on top, light gun, uses a MOS Technology MPS 7600-004 chip.
More SxS than O / U guns have traditional ' cast-off ' stocks, where the end of the buttstock veers to the right, allowing a right-handed user to point the gun more easily.
However, courts and various levels of government have indicated that the right is not without limit, and restrictions such as a prohibition of certain persons from owning or handling a gun ( convicted felons, mentally ill persons, persons under a restraining order ), a ban on certain types of ammunition ( armor-piercing, incendiary / tracer, explosive ), registration and restriction of certain types of firearms ( automatic weapons, short-barrelled shotguns, certain types of modifications ), and licensing requirements for possession or for public carry, have often passed judicial scrutiny ( although some of these points remain untested and others are currently under challenge ).
Israel does not recognize the possession of firearms as a right, and requires a license for the possession of a gun, however the circumstances in which one is eligible for a license are generally broader than most surrounding states.
The Italian Constitution does not recognize the right to keep and bear arms, however different types of gun licenses can be obtained from the national police authorities.
# Attitude altering: People may begin to think of gun ownership as a privilege rather than a right, and thus regard gun confiscation less seriously.
One aspect of the gun control debate is the conflict between gun control laws and the right to rebel against unjust governments.
Right before boarders arrive, Tyler has Rabbit fire a shot from the deck gun right into the ship's radio tower, preventing the destroyer from reporting that the Enigma code has been compromised, and dives underneath her.
Earliest known representation of a gun ( a fire lance ) and a grenade ( upper right ), from the cave murals of Dunhuang, China, 10th century.
< center > Forging | Forged steel shrapnel shells for BL 5 inch gun Mk I-V | BL 5 inch gun with bursting charge in base ( left ), and in nose ( right ) for comparison, 1886 </ center >
Instead of the ray gun, Keen is armed with " Flower Power ", small pellets he can collect and throw left, right, straight up, or ( in midair ) straight down.
Some see gun ownership as a civil right.
Jeff Snyder is a spokesman for the view that gun possession is a civil right, and that therefore arguments about whether gun restrictions reduce or increase violent crime are beside the point: " I am not here engaged in ... recommending ... policy prescriptions on the basis of the promised or probable results crime ... Thus these essays are not fundamentally about guns at all.
SAS interprets the Second Amendment as recognizing the pre-existing natural right of individuals to bear arms as tools of self-defense, and promotes gun safety and marksmanship among their members.
He did not perform well, confusing left and right during training and being too cautious and clumsy with his gun.
On the right is a man in military uniform with sunglasses and a gun on his right side.

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He lifted the skirt of Macklin's coat, took his gun from its holster, tossed it onto the desk.
Once more he lifted Jess's gun from its holster, only this time he tossed it into the stall with the frightened buckskin.
His gun was half drawn when he asked the question, but the weapon never left its holster.
B attempts to falsify A's conditional statement (" if Republican then against gun control ") by providing evidence he believes would contradict its implication.
Being a protective encasement with at least one gun position, it is essentially a pillbox or small fortress ( though these are static fortifications of a purely defensive nature ) that can move toward the enemy-hence its offensive utility.
An example of the development of tank destroyer technology throughout the war are the Marder III and Hetzer vehicle, that were very different in spite of being based on the same chassis: Marder was straightforwardly an anti-tank gun on tracks whereas Hetzer traded some firepower ( its Pak 39, designed to operate within the confines of a fully-armored fighting compartment, fires the same projectiles from a reduced propellant charge compared to Marder's Pak 40 ) for better armor protection and ease of battlefield concealment.
Its small 37 mm gun and light armor was seen as a flaw, but was produced in such a large volume and, coupled with its off-road capability, that this shortcoming was largely overlooked.
The glue gun melts the solid adhesive then allows the liquid to pass through its barrel onto the material, where it solidifies.
The British Churchill tank because of its good cross-country performance and capacious interior with side hatches became the most adapted with modifications, the base unit being the AVRE carrying a large demolition gun.
" Despite being significantly more advanced than its predecessors, the Armstrong gun was rejected soon after its integration, in favor of the muzzle-loading pieces that had been in use before.
The word " fighter " was first used to describe a two-seater aircraft with sufficient lift to carry a machine gun and its operator as well as the pilot.
The British Foster mounting was specifically designed for this kind of application, fitted with the Lewis Machine gun, which due to its design was unsuitable for synchronizing.
A submachine gun is desirable for its compact size and ammunition capacity, however a pistol round lacks the penetrating capability of a rifle round.
Unlike most European countries the Czech gun law allow its citizens to carry a concealed weapon without having any specific reason.
A Chinese pirate or commercial shipwreck site yielded a paired swivel gun, for rapid firing: one barrel would fire whiles its opposite was being reloaded, though this remains a rare find.
The innovative features of the Gatling gun were its independent firing mechanism for each barrel and the simultaneous action of the locks, barrels, carrier and breech.
In professional upholstery, its chief competitor is the staple gun.
In addition to these critical items, the equipment used to assemble the cartridge also has an effect on its uniformity / consistency and optimal shape / size ; dies used to size the cartridges can be matched to the chamber of a given gun.
Its steeply-sloped front armour offered full protection against NATO's standard. 50 calibre machine gun and partial protection against 20 millimetre Oerlikon cannon both in a 60 degree frontal arc, while its 73 mm gun and ATGM were a threat to NATO APCs and even MBTs.
The submarine answered their waves with fire from its deck gun, but no one was hurt in the attack.
" The longbow was the machine gun of the Middle Ages: accurate, deadly, possessed of a long range and rapid rate of fire, the flight of its missiles was likened to a storm.
Although focusing primarily on the issues of race and homosexuality, Kuypers found that the press injected opinion into its news coverage of other issues such as welfare reform, environmental protection, and gun control ; in all cases favoring a liberal point of view.
While most weapons are designed to be used exclusively in one manner or the other, FM 3-22. 68 " Crew-Served Machine Guns ", describes how the M249 can be used either as a machine gun or as an automatic rifle: " Both the M249 automatic rifle and the M249 machine gun are identical, but its employment is different.

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