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 ).

The gun had been thoroughly tested and was well past intercontinental ranges, but needed modifying.

Another 16. 4 " gun, mounted horizontally, was being tested at the Highwater range, and was extended by cutting the breech off the end of one gun and welding it to the end of another to produce a new gun over 110 feet long.

This gun was extensively tested in 1965 and 66.

Britain had successful tested a new HAA gun, 3. 6-inch, in 1918.

However though prototypes were tested the German army felt that it did not improve on the existing design sufficiently to merit introduction and the army stayed with the earlier gun.

In 1947, the United States Air Force tested a Schräge Musik gun installation on a Lockheed F-80A Shooting Star standard " day fighter " aircraft ( s / n 44-85044 ) to study the ability to attack Soviet bombers from below.

In response to the difficulty of penetrating British Matilda Infantry tanks during the Battle of France, the Germans had tested a gun — based on the 5 cm Pak 38 anti-tank gun — on a Panzer IV Ausf.

The only thoroughly tested light machine gun which also fired the 8 mm Lebel cartridge was the CS machine rifle.

The T22E1 tested an autoloader for the main gun, and eliminated the loader's position with a small two-man turret.

The Germans were planning to use the MBT-70 in combination with the Keiler, a tank built on the MBT-70 chassis equipped with a Rheinmetall 120 mm smoothbore gun, therefore some MBT-70 prototypes were tested with the 120 mm gun.

Several prototypes tested, mounting single or twin 2cm Flak 38, and in one case a 7. 5cm K51 L / 24 gun.

Conversely, and precisely at the same time as the discovery of the " wikt: bordereau | bordereau " in the summer of 1894, the first successful prototype of the highly advanced long-recoil Mle 1897 Canon de 75 modèle 1897 | French 75 field gun had just been tested in great secrecy.

The final experimental version of Deport's 75 mm field gun was tested during the summer of 1894 and judged very promising.

From the early 1920s, the Imperial Japanese Army tested a variety of European light tanks, including six Carden-Loyd Mark VIbs machine gun carriers and several Renault FT-17, and a decision was reached in 1929 to proceed with the domestic development of a new vehicle based largely on the Carden Loyd design to address the deficiencies of wheeled armored cars.

The Germans tested the K-5, mounted on older T-72 tanks, and in the US, Jane's IDR's Pentagon correspondent Leland Ness confirmed that " when fitted to T-72 tanks, the ' heavy ' ERA made them immune to the depleted uranium penetrators of M829 APFSDS, fired by the 120 mm guns of the US M1 Abrams tanks, which were among the most formidable tank gun projectiles at the time.

The gun was also tested by firing against three thick spruce planks and penetrated the first and went halfway through the second.

* 2 June – The Lewis machine gun is first tested in an aircraft by the United States Army.

The disassembled gun tubes, spare parts, and remaining ammunition were later captured by the US Army and shipped to the United States where they were tested and evaluated at the Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, where they were finally scrapped in 1948.

When the second was tested at Lulworth, it was criticized that, although it would be effective at long range against the current best-gunned tank in German service ( the Panzer IV " Special " with the long 75 mm gun ), at shorter ranges it would be at a disadvantage due to slow firing rate and thin armour.

The adoption of modular composite armor design facilitates the upgrading and exchange of the armor, and its frontal armor is tested to be effective against JM-33 120 mm APFSDS projectiles from the L44 gun, while the side armor of the turret is capable of defeating up to 35 mm APDS ( Armor penetration of 90 millimeters of RHA at one kilometer ) projectiles.