I had squeezed the trigger of my own gun, and to my amazement, it had fired and kicked back into my shoulder with the force of an angry mule ; ;

The two had been hunting in the Simmonsville area of town and Mr. Parrillo dropped the gun which fired as it struck the ground.

* Railway gun: large-caliber weapons that are mounted on, transported by and fired from specially-designed railway wagons.

Use of two guns was therefore a reasonable compromise, as this allowed one gun to be cocked as the other is being fired, in practical terms doubling the rate of fire and the available number of bullets.

The projectile fired from the Armstrong gun could reportedly pierce through a ship's side, and explode inside the enemy vessel, causing increased damage, and casualties.

World War I also saw the use of the Paris Gun, the longest-ranged gun ever fired.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

A long gun is generally any small arm that is larger than a handgun and is designed to be held and fired with both hands, either from the hip or the shoulder.

When the gun is fired, unburned powder comes out with enough force to break a balloon.

To do this artificially may require attaching the genes to a virus or just physically inserting the extra DNA into the nucleus of the intended host with a very small syringe, or with very small particles fired from a gene gun.

The Maxim gun, invented in 1884, was the first true fully automatic weapon, making use of the fired projectile's recoil force to reload the weapon.

During the American charge up San Juan and Kettle Hills, the three guns fired a total of 18, 000. 30 Army rounds in eight and one-half minutes ( an average of over 700 rpm per gun ) against Spanish troop positions along the crest of both hills, wreaking terrible carnage.

As the barrels rotated, these steel cylinders dropped into place, were fired, and were then ejected from the gun.

Additionally, some HMMWVs have been fitted with a remotely operated CROWS weapon station, which slaves the machine gun to controls in the back seat so it can be fired without exposing the crew.

Grammer says that she was abusive and fired a gun at him, and that after talk of divorce, she attempted suicide, which resulted in the miscarriage of their child.

In small arms, a long gun is designed to be fired braced against the shoulder, in contrast to a handgun, while in artillery a long gun would be contrasted with a howitzer or carronade.

* Unpowered munitions not fired from a gun are called bombs whether guided or not ; unpowered, guided munitions are known as guided bombs or " smart bombs ".

* Munitions that are fired from a gun are known as projectiles whether guided or not.

Some missiles may have additional propulsion from another source at launch ; for example the V1 was launched by a catapult and the MGM-51 was fired out of a tank gun ( using a smaller charge than would be used for a shell ).

A machine gun is often portable to a certain degree, but is generally used when attached to a mount or fired from the ground on a bipod, and generally fires a rifle cartridge.

Unlike semi-automatic firearms, which require one trigger pull per bullet fired, a machine gun is designed to fire as long as the trigger is held down.

The " Maxim gun " used the recoil power of the previously fired bullet to reload rather than being hand-powered, enabling a much higher rate of fire than was possible using earlier designs such as the Nordenfelt and Gatling weapons.

Closeup of M2 – This machine gun is part of a complex armament subsystem ; it is aimed and fired from the aircraft rather than directly

Of all their worldly belongings, next to the oxen and his gun, the seed grain had been the most treasured.

the next, a cloud of gun smoke covered a screaming fury of sound, out of which the redcoat soldiers emerged with their bayonets and their cursing fury.

it's a single-shot bolt-action with an automatic safety -- i.e., the safety goes on every time the bolt is lifted and the gun cocked for the next shot.

The official army position, backed by the British Home Secretary the next day in the House of Commons, was that the paratroopers had reacted to gun and nail bomb attacks from suspected IRA members.

The United States ' XM360, which is planned to equip the Future Combat Systems Mounted Combat System light tank and may be the M1 Abrams ' next gun upgrade, is reportedly based on the XM291 and may include ETC technology, or portions of ETC technology.

The next major advance can be seen in the Birch gun developed by the British for their motorised warfare experimental brigade ( the Experimental Mechanized Force ) after the end of the War.

The next step was to mount the guns on a tracked chassis ( often that of an obsolete or superseded tank ) and provide an armoured superstructure to protect the gun and its crew.

Harry grabs Ben's rifle and threatens to shoot him, but Ben takes back the gun and shoots Harry, who stumbles into the cellar to collapse next to Karen, who has died of the infection of her injury.

* July 29 – In New York City, the " Son of Sam " pulls a gun from a paper bag, killing 1 and seriously wounding another, in the first of a series of attacks that terrorize the city for the next year.

On August 4, 1985, a gun shootout occurred at the FRG Sports Complex — formerly known as Muller's Park — directly next to Oakland's former swimming park located along the Ramapo River called Pleasureland.

Over the next two days the allies completed the gun placements and dragged the artillery into line.

Semi-automatic firearms, when fired, automatically extract the spent cartridge casing and load the next cartridge into the chamber, ready to fire again ; they do not fire automatically like a machine gun ; rather, only one round is fired with each trigger pull.

* A man is shot in a guarded room, while the still-smoking gun was delivered next door in a sealed envelope prior to the shots being fired.

He was, with difficulty, persuaded to postpone this pending the arrival of a 32 pound naval gun which came the next day, 1 July.

The LTTE broke the ceasefire and blew up two Sri Lanka Navy gun boats known as SLNS ' Sooraya ' and ' Ranasuru ' on 19 April, thus beginning the next phase of the war, dubbed Eelam War III.

Ryan moved along Fairview Road, killing Abdul Rahman Khan who was mowing his lawn, then proceeded to injure his next door neighbour, Alan Lepetit, further along Fairview Road: Lepetit had helped Ryan build the gun display unit in which Ryan housed his weapons.

He was, with difficulty, persuaded to postpone this pending the arrival of a 32 pound naval gun which came the next day, 1 July.

The next witness was Gerald F. Wilkes, a local FBI ballistics expert, who testified that he found the shell casing at the crime scene which he compared to Gilmore's gun that was left there.

She accuses him of this the next time they meet, but he explains that he found her gun at the bar and that he buried Marty alive.

Initially the Eagle was engaged with two French ships, but one moved away and for next two hours battle Rodney engaged the seventy gun Neptune until his steering wheel was struck by a lucky shot, and his ship became unmanageable.

A known glitch about the zapper is you can get a perfect hit score every time in some poorly programmed games by simply pointing the gun right next to and into a light bulb.

After moving to England, he settled in a large house formerly owned by Lord Thurlow in West Norwood where he developed his design for an automatic weapon, using an action that would close the breech and compress a spring, by storing the recoil energy released by a shot to prepare the gun for its next shot.

So was the man next to him and a third was seriously wounded by machine gun fire.

In the next century, the automatic rifle traces its roots to World War I, where the Browning Automatic Rifle ( BAR ) and Huot first appeared, to fulfill the function of the light machine gun in an infantry assault role ; only the Mondragón and the Browning entered service.