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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.
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 ).

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There may also be hybrid vehicles such as the M1128 Mobile Gun System, which mounts a large 105mm gun normally used in tank destroyers, but can theoretically also carry infantry soldiers as an IFV.
As the amount of German armour encountered by the Allies decreased, especially in Italy, a number of American tank destroyer units were used in the assault gun role for infantry support.
However, the small 37 mm gun would not be effective against the front armor of German tanks so as an armored car, designated M8 Light Armored Car, it was used for reconnaissance instead.
A predecessor of the WW2 German " 88 " anti-aircraft gun, the WWI German 77 mm anti-aircraft gun, was truck-mounted and used to great effect against British tanks.
Modifications to each aircraft include removal of the aircraft gun and replacement with the tank that contains smoke-oil used in demonstrations, and outfitting with the control stick spring system for more precise aircraft control input.
The cathode ray tube ( CRT ) is a vacuum tube containing an electron gun ( a source of electrons or electron emitter ) and a fluorescent screen used to view images.
An often used example is " putting a gun to someone's head " ( at gunpoint ) or putting a " knife under the throat " ( at knifepoint or cut-throat ) to compel action.
The British and French armies dismounted many of their cavalry regiments and used them in infantry and other roles: the Life Guards for example spent the last months of the War as a machine gun corps ; and the Australian Light Horse served as light infantry during the Gallipoli campaign.
The word has been used to refer to a gun since 1326 in Italy, and 1418 in England.
Any large, smoothbore, muzzle-loading gunused before the advent of breech-loading, rifled guns — may be referred to as a cannon, though once standardized names were assigned to different sized cannons, the term specifically referred to a gun designed to fire a shot, as opposed to a demi-cannon-, culverin-, or demi-culverin-.
One example is the American wrought-iron, muzzle-loading rifle, or Griffen gun, used during the American Civil War, which had an effective range of over.
When referring to cannon, the term gun is often used incorrectly.
This caliber gun was used by the Germans against Paris and could hit targets more than away.
In 1944, the 8. 8 cm KwK 43 and many variations, entered service with the Wehrmacht, and was used as both a tank main gun, and as the PaK 43 anti-tank gun.
He used the chronophotographic gun for studying animals and human locomotion.
The word " fighter " was first used to describe a two-seater aircraft with sufficient lift to carry a machine gun and its operator as well as the pilot.
Mounting the machine gun over the top wing worked well and was used long after the ideal solution was found.
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.

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