By failing to do as he was told instantly -- to take out a permit or return the gun to his car -- he had played into Lord's hands.

Curt was holding Jess's gun in his left hand.

The terrible power of a gun, the thing that blasted the soul out of a living body, man or beast, was one he never wanted to lose.

Another evidence of the spreading rule of reason was provided from Mexico City with the daily hijacking of an American plane by a demented Algerian with a gun.

The beaming ROK was carrying a thirty-caliber machine gun ; ;

That was when the gun went off.

and I know that I, myself, was nauseated with apprehension and fear and that my hands were soaking wet where they held my gun.

I put a lot more trust in my two legs than in the gun, because the most important thing I had learned about war was that you could run away and survive to talk about it.

Bobby Joe took a gun from behind the door, and with a quick `` Bye now '' was gone for the day.

It's the Valmet ( about $170 ), a 12-gauge over/under very much like the old Remington 32 -- which was so fine a gun that today a used one still brings high prices.

Then he was to co-ordinate his fire with a radar-controlled shore gun firing white tracers.

He was going to be sensible and not try to do anything rash with that gun pointed at him.

There was something phony about all this gun waving -- something not quite what it seemed in the detailed directions for finding the police.

Shayne stepped back to let him slump to the ground, and then dived over him through the open door into Harris who was cursing loudly and trying to drag a gun from a shoulder holster, somewhat impeded by the steering wheel.

He walked up to the lieutenant's office, leaned wearily against the gun rack that housed four rifles and a gas gun nobody remembered having used and a submachine gun that was occasionally tried out on the Academy Range.

The important thing was that Burton had gone somewhere to meet a blackmailer with a gun in his pocket.

And that gun was empty.

Maybe he only intended to scare the blackmailer, whoever he was, in which case an unloaded gun would be good enough.

Right now, however, he was still too worried about Jerry Burton, and the gun that had no bullets, and the story Burton had told him, to care too much about Tony Calenda.

So was the gun.

" He then walked calmly into the courthouse, was threatened with a gun, and turned back, " but without hastening a step ", according to Higginson.

The primary German assault gun was the Sturmgeschütz III ( StuG III ).

Polling shows that over half of parents who do not own a gun have never talked with their children age 5-17 about gun safety.

The ASK Campaign ( Asking Saves Kids ) is based on the fact that many families with children have a gun, and almost half these guns are left unlocked or loaded.

The Verdun sector was poorly defended in 1916 because half the artillery in the forts had been taken away during 1915, leaving only the heavy guns in the retractable gun turrets.

On 19 December that year, at Southend Crown Court, he was imprisoned for four months ( being freed after half of his sentence on 15 February 1991 ) but after being released, his alcoholism continued and he was involved in further alcohol-related incidents, including playing through a match during the 1993 – 94 season despite being drunk, falling down stairs and needing 29 stitches to a head wound when drunk, and letting off fire extinguishers and firing a flare gun into a disabled lavatory with team-mate Ray Parlour at Pizza Hut in Hornchurch where they were being taunted by supporters of rival clubs.

Despite the reduced windage, carronades had a much shorter range, typically a third to a half, than the equivalent long gun because they used a much smaller propellant charge ( the chamber for the powder was smaller than the bore for the ball ).

In addition to farming and related industries, Jamestown was home to a gun factory, which manufactured a sturdy and accurate muzzle-loading gun known as the " Jamestown Rifle ," the mainstay of Jamestown's industry through the latter half of the 19th century and a highly prized collectible among gun enthusiasts today.

After nearly one and a half hours of sporadic gun battles, the Russian special forces blew open the doors to the main hall and poured into the auditorium.

The requirement for the new firearm called for a compact, lightweight defensive weapon with an effective range of 300 yards, with greater range, firepower, and accuracy than the pistol, while weighing half as much as the Thompson submachine gun or M1 rifle.

The cartoon introduces Boba Fett, as well as his jet pack and rope gun, which are not used again in the feature films until Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi four and a half years later.

* KV-85 – A KV-1S with the 85mm D-5T cannon in a new turret, with the ball mounted hull machine gun removed and the hole welded shut, 148 of these tanks were produced in the second half of 1943 until the spring of 1944 as a stopgap until the IS tank series entered production.

One of McKay ’ s photographs shows the Russian warship Vjestnik anchored in Wellington harbour about two and a half kilometres away, with its rigging lines and gun ports clearly visible.

The column under his command varied, although it usually consisted of two regiments, a battery of horse artillery, a long-range gun and half a battalion of infantry.

When details were discovered after the war it aroused much interest and a more detailed study was done, culminating with a 1947 report which concluded that it was theoretically feasible, but that each gun would need enough power to illuminate half of Chicago.

In the final battle in the second movie, there are many Decepticon casualties including Devastator ( destroyed by a rail gun ), Mixmaster ( cut in half and his head stomped off by Jetfire ), Rampage ( killed by Bumblebee ), Ravage ( Stripped from his spine by Bumblebee ), Scrapper and Long Haul ( killed by an airstrike ), Scorponok ( head crushed by Jetfire ) and the Fallen himself whose spark is ripped out and crushed by Optimus Prime.

As in the Soviet assault on Berlin, as a short term measure they deployed self-propelled anti-aircraft guns ( ZSU-23-4 and 2K22M ) to engage the Chechen combat groups, as their tank's main gun did not have the elevation and depression to engage the fire teams and an armoured vehicle's machine gun could not suppress the fire of half a dozen different fire teams simultaneously.

The initial BEF-a single army of 5 regular divisions in August 1914, two armies comprising 16 divisions by the end of the 1914 when the Territorials had been deployed-had grown to five armies totalling around 60 divisions in strength by the summer of 1916, approximately 2 million men of whom around half were infantry ( the rest were gun crews, supply and logistics men etc.

The second wave of 150 followed the first without question two minutes later and met the same fate with almost all the men cut down by heavy rifle and machine gun fire before they got half way to the Ottoman trench.

Unlicensed copies of the gun were also manufactured in Spain and China in the first half of the 20th century.

At 12: 30 the 5th Light Horse Regiment, 2nd Light Horse Brigade, and half their machine gun squadron attacked a company of Ottoman soldiers on a road moving north east from Gaza, capturing and wounding many, while others escaped in the cactus hedges.

Although initially fitted with a synchronizer, the irregular rate of fire afforded by the gas-operated Hotchkiss machine gun he used meant it didn't work half the time, and he was reduced to fitting metal plates to armour the propeller.