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.

His gun was half drawn when he asked the question, but the weapon never left its holster.

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 ).

Although his first submachine gun design was not accepted into service, his talent as a designer was noticed.

The submachine gun was gradually accepted by many militaries, with many countries developing their own designs over the period, especially in the 1930s.

After years of painful anxiety and frequent bouts of mental illness, he died at the age of 37 from a gunshot wound, generally accepted to be self-inflicted ( although no gun was ever found ).

Instead, the association that Kellermann found between gun ownership and victimization merely reflected the widely accepted notion that people who live in more dangerous circumstances are more likely to be murdered, but also were more likely to have acquired guns for self-protection prior to their death.

the earliest date is put around the 14th century where a copperplate inscription of Parakarama Bahu IV ( 1302-1326 ) refers to two persons who were declared exempt from certain taxes which included " gun licenses ". http :// www. island. lk / index. php? page_cat = article-details & page = article-details & code_title = 22207 many also believe that it was the Portuguese who first brought over actual muskets during their invasion of the Sri Lankan Coastline and low lands in 1505 as they regularly used short barrelled matchlocks during combat, however, P. E. P. Deraniyagala points out that the Sinhala term for gun, ‘ bondikula ’ matches the Arabic term for gun, ‘ bunduk .’ Also that certain technical aspects of the early Sinhalese matchlock were similar to the matchlocks used in the Middle East, thus forming the generally accepted theory that the musket was not entirely new to the island by the time the Portuguese came, but it was only in a short matter of time that native Sri Lankan kingdoms, most notably the kingdom of Sitawaka and the Kandyan Kingdom where Sinhalese muskets with a unique bifurcated stock, longer barrel and smaller calibre, which made it more efficient in driving out the energy from the gunpowder, where manufactured by the hundreds and mastered by soldiers to the point where according to the Portuguese invader, Queyroz, they could " fire at night to put out a match " and " by day at 60 paces would sever a knife with four or five bullets " and " send as many on the same spot in the target.

* KV-14 ( Object 236 ) – Prototype designation for a 152 mm self-propelled gun, accepted for service as the SU-152.

This practice continued throughout the 20th century since machine guns were first used in World War I, and the high friendly fire risk has generally been accepted by troops since machine gun emplacements are tactically so valuable, and at the same time so dangerous that the attackers wanted them to be shelled, considering the shells far less deadly than the machine guns.

The Maschinengewehr 34, or MG 34, is a German recoil-operated air-cooled machine gun that was first produced and accepted into service in 1934, and first issued to units in 1935.

The new gun was accepted for service almost immediately and was generally liked by the troops, and it was used to great effect by German soldiers assisting Nationalist Spain in the Spanish Civil War.

In July 1970, during an interview with Yallop, Craig accepted that the bullet that killed Miles came from his gun, but maintained that all of his shots were fired over the rear garden of a house adjacent to the warehouse, approximately 20 degrees to the right of Miles's location from where Craig had been firing.

With minor changes, the S-Tank was adopted as the Stridsvagn 103 ( 103 from the fact that it was the third tank with a 10 cm gun accepted into Swedish service ).

After reworking the M3 by providing an open-topped superstructure, mounting a 105 mm howitzer and, following trials, adding a machine gun, the T32 was accepted for service as the M7 in February 1942 and production began that April.

The Mk I gun and Mk I carriage were accepted into service on 30 June 1904.

The M3 was also adapted as a main gun for various armored vehicles, starting with the experimental T7 which was accepted as the 90 mm M3.

The 65 mm gun was first accepted into service with Italian mountain troops in 1913, and it served with them throughout World War I. Replacements arrived in the 1920s and the gun was transferred to the regular infantry.

During production, the staff members looks for an actual NBA player to appear with a shot gun during the first act, but the no player accepted the role.

The Germans accepted the gun as a substitute standard weapon, naming it the 7. 65 mm MP722 ( f ).

The idea was accepted, and Zawrotny, together with his colleague Seweryn Wielanier, prepared a project of a sub-machine gun, soon afterward named Błyskawica ( Polish for " lightning ").

Shortly before the end of the war a new QF 3. 6 inch gun was accepted for service but the end of the war meant it did not enter production.

The Admiralty accepted the principle of the turret gun as a useful innovation, and incorporated it into other new designs.

As the first honoree, Lilly ( who had retired from the NFL in July of ' 75 after 14 years ) donned his Cowboy uniform once more and graciously accepted the honor, along with numerous other gifts, which included a car, a gun and a hunting dog.