He is the stern guardian of the status quo who has raised the utilitarian structures of the age, and he is the revolutionary poet with a gun in his hand who writes a tragic apologetic to posterity for the men he has killed.

This gun has a 12-1/2-inch stock and is available in either 20 or gauge.

However, the resurgence of expeditionary warfare in the past twenty years has seen the emergence of gun-armed wheeled vehicles, sometimes called protected gun systems, which may bear a superficial resemblance to tank destroyers, but are employed as direct fire support units typically providing support in low intensity operations such as Iraq and Afghanistan.

The desire to create air portable armoured vehicles that can still take on conventional MBTs has usually resulted ATGM armed light vehicles or in protected / armoured / mobile gun system style vehicles in which a lack of armour protection being in part offset by the provision of a first look / first hit / first kill capability through the mating of a powerful gun to superior targeting electronics, a concept similar in operation to that of the US tank destroyers of WWII.

However, the resurgence of expeditionary warfare in the past twenty years has seen the emergence of gun-armed wheeled vehicles, sometimes called protected gun systems, which may bear a superficial resemblance to tank destroyers, but are employed as direct fire support units typically providing support in low-intensity operations such as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

She has advocated for stricter gun control laws and gay rights, and voted against California's Proposition 8 during the 2008 elections.

Since these stock additions retain the short pistol barrel ( as short as 100 mm ( 4 inches )) they are highly restricted under the NFA unless the shoulder stocks are of original manufacture for the gun and the gun has been " delisted " as outlined in links 1 & 2 in the paragraph above, as is the case with so-equipped " Broomhandle " Mausers and Lugers.

Nearly every rural household on Crete has at least one unregistered gun.

The prototype Ob. 9 had a commander's cupola with DShK 1938 / 46 machine gun, but the production model has a square commander's hatch, opening to the right.

This vehicle has no turret but a fixed superstructure, armed with an NSVT machine gun.

The word has been used to refer to a gun since 1326 in Italy, and 1418 in England.

As with other controversies, it has been suggested that exposure to empirical facts would be sufficient to resolve the gun control debate once and for all.

Originally researched by Dr. Jon Parmentola for the U. S. Army, it has grown into a very plausible successor to a standard solid propellant tank gun.

Since the beginning of research the United States has funded the XM-291 gun project with USD 4, 000, 000, basic research with USD 300, 000, and applied research with USD 600, 000.

Through the application of electrothermal-chemical technology the XM-291 has been able to achieve muzzle energy outputs that equate that to a low-level 140 mm gun, while achieving muzzle velocities greater than those of the larger 140 mm gun.

Even at 50 % efficiency a rail gun launching a projectile with a kinetic energy of 20 MJ would require an energy input into the rails of 40 MJ, and 50 % efficiency has not yet been achieved.

For example, OTO Melara's new lightweight 120 mm L / 45 gun has achieved a recoil force of 25 t by using a longer recoil mechanism ( 550 mm ) and a pepperpot muzzle brake.

Although the modern term " gun " is often used as a synonym for firearm, in specialist or military use it has a restricted sense referring only to an artillery piece with a relatively high muzzle velocity, such as a field gun, a tank gun, or a gun used in the delivery of naval gunfire ; or in sporting use for a shotgun.

** M16A1 MGMC-Standard M3 Personnel Carriers converted to Multiple Gun Motor Carriages by removing rear seats and installing a Maxson M45 mount ( more specifically the M45F, which featured folding " bat wing " gun shields on both sides of the mount over the machine guns ).

Rounds for the main gun were upgraded from HEP to APFSDS and HEAT-MP.

Rounds fired from the gun traveled at about 2, 400 ft / s, and the rate of fire was about 450 rpm.

One example is the gangs and gun homicide reduction project reported by Anthony Bragga, David Kennedy, Anne Piehl and Elin Waring is their evaluation study " The Boston Gun Project's Operation Ceasefire-Measuring the Impact of Operation Ceasefire " ( National Institute of Justice, 2001 ).

Its small 37 mm gun and light armor was seen as a flaw, but was produced in such a large volume and, coupled with its off-road capability, that this shortcoming was largely overlooked.

While both types of gun were effective against wooden ships, neither had the capability to pierce the armour of ironclads ; due to reports of slight problems with the breeches of the Armstrong gun, and their higher cost, the older muzzle-loaders were selected to remain in service, instead.

A submachine gun is desirable for its compact size and ammunition capacity, however a pistol round lacks the penetrating capability of a rifle round.

A technical is a type of improvised fighting vehicle, typically a civilian or military non-combat vehicle, modified to provide an offensive capability similar to a military gun truck.

The British adopted " effective ceiling ", meaning the altitude at which a gun could deliver a series of shells against a moving target ; this could be constrained by maximum fuze running time as well as the gun's capability.

Also available to the Americans at the start of the war was the 120 mm M1 gun stratosphere gun, which was the most powerful AA gun with an impressive altitude capability.

** 1 × AIR-2A Genie nuclear rocket or AIM-26 Super Falcon missile, a capability replaced since 1972 with a gun pod

Pashley's multi-disciplinary manufacturing capability proved to be of considerable value and the company produced browning machine gun mounts among other equipment.

* Competitors may only load 8 rounds in the gun, although firearms with a capability for a higher capacity are allowed

* Competitors may only load 6 rounds in the gun, although revolvers with a capability for a higher capacity are allowed

This " select-fire " capability, as well as the ( general ) use of magazine-fed rifle ammunition, differentiate it from other classes of automatic firearm such as the machine gun and submachine gun.

The Valentine shared the common weakness of the British tanks of the period: its 2-pounder gun lacked high-explosive ( anti-personnel ) capability, and soon became outdated as an anti-tank weapon too.

The DM operates as an integral member of the infantry platoon, providing a niche capability contributing to the overall firepower of the platoon in the same way as a grenadier with a rifle-mounted grenade launcher, allowing the team to have a better chance against groups of enemies and armored vehicles ; or the machine gunner who employs the squad / section machine gun to lay down suppressing fire for an amount of area denial to the enemy.

Upgrades include new electronics, sighting and information systems meant to elevate the Leopard 2A4's networking capability to be equal to that of the Leopard 2A6, a new suspension system and the upgrading of the tanks main gun to the L55 smoothbore cannon used on the Leopard 2A6.

Also he demanded a gun sight allowing some fire-on-the-move capability.

During colonial British rule in India the following head of states had 21 gun salutes based on prosperity rather than military capability:

The forward firing gun of a pusher " gun carrier " provided some offensive capability – the mounting of a machine gun firing to the rear from a two seater tractor aircraft gave defensive capability.

Deliberately, with none of Rankin's viciousness, he laid the barrel of his gun alongside the guard's head.

I'm not the only man in town with a gun, or the only one without a permit ''.

He came to the edge of the veranda, peered down at them with his hand on his gun.

Once more he lifted Jess's gun from its holster, only this time he tossed it into the stall with the frightened buckskin.

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.

Over his shoulder he could see Prevot with the machine gun crew.

and I know that I, myself, was nauseated with apprehension and fear and that my hands were soaking wet where they held my gun.

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.

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 ; ;

Bobby Joe took a gun from behind the door, and with a quick `` Bye now '' was gone for the day.

it's a short, light, quick-handling, fast-firing little timber gun designed to push a heavy slug at modest velocity but with lots of killing power and ample range for our most popular big game -- whitetail.

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 single-barrel Stevens 940Y ( under $35 ) is made with a side lever rather than a top-tang lever because many youngsters aren't strong enough to operate a top tang to open a gun -- and the side lever does indeed open very easily.

Are you looking ahead to the exploding market of millions of American boys and girls, who will grow up to enjoy a traditional American way of life -- ranging the fields with a fine American gun and uniformly excellent ammunition??

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.

The important thing was that Burton had gone somewhere to meet a blackmailer with a gun in his pocket.

The gun fired next to his ear with a vicious whoosh like the first stroke of an old steam engine.

German words with umlaut would further be alphabetized as if there were no umlaut at all — contrary to Turkish which allegedly adopted the German graphemes ö and ü, and where a word like tüfek, " gun ", would come after tuz, " salt ", in the dictionary.

" He then walked calmly into the courthouse, was threatened with a gun, and turned back, " but without hastening a step ", according to Higginson.

This features a main artillery gun, mounted in a fully rotating turret atop a tracked automotive hull, with various additional machine guns throughout.

Being a protective encasement with at least one gun position, it is essentially a pillbox or small fortress ( though these are static fortifications of a purely defensive nature ) that can move toward the enemy-hence its offensive utility.

Tank destroyer are armed with a gun or missile launcher, and is designed specifically to engage enemy armored vehicles.