However, the shell-handling system for these guns was redesigned to use the " super-heavy " APC ( Armor Piercing, Capped ) Mark 8 shell before any of the Iowa-class battleships were laid down.

Piercing guns can also be used though not recommended due to sudden shock to the ear.

Piercing guns may be reusable or disposable.

Piercing guns are typically used in mall jewelry shops.

Piercing guns are widely criticized in the body piercing community.

Shannon Larratt, editor and publisher of BME and a vocal critic of the piercing gun, penned an essay titled < span class = plainlinks > Piercing guns are blasphemy !</ span >, where he described the piercing gun as an inherently flawed, dangerous instrument that should never be used.

The guns are 90 calibres () long, with a muzzle velocity of ( FAPDS — Frangible Armour Piercing Discarding Sabot rounds ), giving an effective range of 5, 500 m. The KDA autocannon can take two different ammunition types, and the usual loading is a mix of 320 AA and 20 AP rounds per gun.

Prior to the introduction of the ROQF 75 mm, British tanks had been equipped with guns such as the QF 2 pounder, and then the larger QF 6 pdr, that fired Armour Piercing shot-good against tanks but ineffective against groups of infantry.

The history of navel piercing has been particularly misrepresented as many of the myths promulgated by Malloy in the pamphlet Body & Genital Piercing in Brief continue to be reprinted.

Piercing of the face ( especially ears and lips ) has been integrated into teenage fashion, along with the subsequent stretching of these piercings by inserting increasingly larger jewelry into the healed fistula.

Piercing the Darkness has been criticized along with Peretti's first novel This Present Darkness on literary and theological grounds.

Piercing has been practiced in a number of indigenous cultures throughout the world, usually as a symbolic rite of passage, a symbolic death and rebirth, an initiation, or for reasons of magical protection.

While Harvard Square has long been controlled by chain restaurants and stores, many businesses on Thayer remain independent, such as Avon Cinema, Blue State Coffee, Rockstar Body Piercing, East Side Pockets, and NAVA-New And Vintage Apparel with certain notable exceptions such as Johnny Rockets, Starbucks, Au Bon Pain, Urban Outfitters, Chipotle, and CVS Pharmacy.

Piercing the skin of the chest was a way of " deflating " the bloated vampire ; this is similar to the act of burying sharp objects, such as sickles, in with the corpse, so that they may penetrate the skin if the body bloats sufficiently while transforming into a revenant.

Piercing the body to draw blood was a traditional practice of the Mohawk and other Iroquois nations.

In a 2004 documentary, entitled The Social History of Piercing, MTV called him " the granddaddy of the modern body piercing movement.

In addition to selling body jewelry and related equipment, The Gauntlet published a periodical called PFIQ, or Piercing Fans International Quarterly.

Consequently, AP ( Armor Piercing ) bullets could pierce body armor but did not cause as much damage as the former choices.

Richard Simonton, also known by his pseudonym Doug Malloy, authored a pamphlet entitled Body & Genital Piercing in Brief which created much of the contemporary mythology surrounding the origin of various body piercings, including the guiche.

In March 2009 she published The Piercing Bible -- The Definitive Guide to Safe Body Piercing, the first book in the English language to delve deeply and exclusively into the subject of body piercing.

Piercing migration is the process that occurs when a body piercing moves from its initial location.

Artemis and Apollo Piercing Niobe's Children with their Arrows by Jacques-Louis David., Dallas Museum of Art.

Piercing ears was also very common.

" Tattooing and Piercing Among the Alaskan Aleut.

The narrative Cath Maige Tured, preserved in a unique 16th century copy, words it slightly different saying that Lugh used the sling-stone ( here liic talma § 133, i. e. lía " stone " of the tailm " sling ") to destroy the evil eye of Balor of the Piercing Eye ( Bolur Birugderc ).

When analyzed through the Nez Perce Language Dictionary, the term cúpnitpelu contains no reference to " Piercing with a pointed object " as described by D. E.

* Persico, Joseph E. Piercing the Reich: The Penetration of Nazi Germany by American Secret Agents During World War II ( New York: Viking, 1979 )

According to the book Piercing the Reich, the SD was infiltrated in 1944 by a Russian who was working for the Americans.

Piercing the dough will prevent excessive puffing, and crimping along the sides will prevent the layers from flaking all of the way to the edges.

High Velocity Armor Piercing ( HVAP ) rounds were also introduced by the United States Army, and were primarily used by tank destroyers.

Three notable works, all dating from the 1770s, " Apollo and Diana Attacking Niobe and her Children " by Anicet-Charles-Gabriel Lemonnier, " The Children of Niobe Killed by Apollo and Diana " by Pierre-Charles Jombert and " Diana and Apollo Piercing Niobe ’ s Children with their Arrows " by Jacques-Louis David belong to the tradition of French Baroque and Classicism.

High Explosive Incendiary / Armor Piercing Ammunition combines a tungsten carbide penetrator with an incendiary and explosive tip.

* Armor Piercing ( AP ): A hard bullet made from steel or tungsten alloys in a pointed shape typically covered by a thin layer of lead and or a copper or brass jacket.

Clatskanie is served by the two public schools of Clatskanie School District, namely the combined Clatskanie Middle / High School, and Clatskanie Elementary School, as well as Piercing Arrow Private School.

Piercing the windowless, city-like curtain wall of the east court is the great East Gate, a monumental triumphal arch, more Egyptian in design than Roman, an optical illusion was created by tapering its walls to create an impression of even greater height.

* Piercing an Ancient Tale Solving the mystery of a Christian relic by Maryann Bird is an article in the European Edition of TIME magazine on British metallurgist Robert Feather ’ s scientific examination of the Spear in Vienna.

The three heavy cruisers fired a total of 535 rounds of 203 mm ammunition: RM Trieste fired 132 AP ( Armour Piercing ); Trento fired 204 AP and 10 HE ( high explosive ), and Bolzano fired another 189 AP, until 8. 55 AM.

" Piercing the corporate veil " refers to looking at the individual natural persons acting as agents involved in a corporate action or decision ; this may result in a legal decision in which the rights or duties of a corporation are treated as the rights or liabilities of that corporation's shareholders or directors.

Body Piercing: Medical Consequences and Psychological Motivations.

* Richard H. Jones, Piercing the Veil: Comparing Science and Mysticism as Ways of Knowing Reality ( Jackson Square Books, 2010 )

Piercing with this method, especially for cartilage piercings, is not recommended by many piercing professionals and physicians, as it can cause blunt force trauma to the skin, and takes far longer to heal than needle piercing.