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The gun was named Cerberus in reference to the multi-headed hound with the same name from Greek and Roman mythology ; the gun has three barrels as Cerberus has three heads.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
" He then walked calmly into the courthouse, was threatened with a gun, and turned back, " but without hastening a step ", according to Higginson.
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" A UK newspaper reported the case of a self-taught gunsmith named Grant Wilkinson, who " was ordered to serve a minimum term of 11 years after a jury found him guilty of running a gun factory supplying lethal Mac-10 weapons to criminals, mainly in London ".
The Maginot Line (, ), named after the French Minister of War André Maginot, was a line of concrete fortifications, tank obstacles, artillery casemates, machine gun posts, and other defenses, which France constructed along its borders with Germany and Italy, in light of its experience in World War I, and in the run-up to World War II.
During the mid-19th century, the ships of the line were superseded by large steam powered ships with heavy gun armament and heavy armour, named ironclads.
They spot an aircraft, and Mazzola-against Tyler's orders-tries to convince Rabbit to fire on the plane with the deck gun, which appears to be coming in for an attack, but is only scouting for a German destroyer named the Anschluss.
The " light gun " is named because it uses light as its method of detecting where on screen the user is targeting.
Once inside the facility, Jay and Silent Bob find a tranquilizer gun and the ape, an orangutan named Suzanne ( a reference to the ending scene in " Mallrats ").
Unfortunately, not understanding the design of the first gun ( originally named " The Orator ", renamed " The Oregon " by Stockton ), the second gun was fatally flawed.
The Elfego Baca Golf Shoot is named after a former mayor of Socorro who survived a gun battle near what is now Reserve, New Mexico, involving over 4, 000 bullets that were fired over the course of 36 hours.
The first designs of modern breechloading mountain guns with recoil control and able to be easily broken down and reassembled into highly efficient units were made by two Greek army engineers, P. Lykoudis and Panagiotis Danglis ( after whom the Schneider-Danglis gun was named ) in the 1890s.
When they returned to Tubuai they built a fort on the Northeast part of the island at Ta ' ahueia, manned with cannon and swivel gun which they named Fort George.
His design, named the Davis gun, connected two guns back to back, with the backwards-facing gun loaded with lead balls and grease of the same weight as the shell in the other gun.
The Chauchat ( pronounced, named after its main contributor Colonel Louis Chauchat ), was the standard light machine gun of the French Army during World War I ( 1914 – 18 ).
It contains a large vault, and its only security guard is a senile man named Asa, who is constantly sleeping and whose fall-apart dilapidated gun is filled with moldy bullets.
In 1870, a Norwegian man named Svend Foyn successfully patented and pioneered the exploding harpoon and gun based on Erik Eriksen's idea and design.
For example, if someone fired a gun, the sound would be written " McBang ". The leader of The McTickles was named Chief Jock and the other Mctickles were Morag ( Stroppy middle-aged woman ), Murdo who had a long beard, Nickol who was one of the younger clan members, Donald who is also one of the younger clan members and some others who were never named.
When the robbery began, a policeman named Howard Wagner had been directing traffic outside ; responding quickly to the scene and attempting to draw his gun, he was shot dead by Van Meter, who was stationed outside the bank.
* In 1883, the British government installed one Armstrong 100 ton gun in a battery in Gibraltar that they named the Napier of Magdala Battery.
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