As the civic temper rises, the more naive citizens begin to play soldier -- but the guns are real.

The decreases, which are largely in construction and in aircraft procurement, are offset in part by increases for research and development and for procurement of other military equipment such as tanks, vehicles, guns, and electronic devices.

`` Tell your company there are four of us here with guns '', the elder man told Rickards.

The level of armour protection between AFVs varies greatly-a main battle tank will normally be designed to take hits from other tank guns and anti-tank missiles, whilst light reconnaissance vehicles are often only armoured " just in case ".

Anti-aircraft guns are usually mounted in a quickly-traversing turret with a high rate of elevation, for tracking fast-moving aircraft.

Within the term are covered self-propelled guns ( or howitzers ) and rocket artillery.

Many are equipped with machine guns for defence against enemy infantry.

Anti-aircraft guns are usually mounted in a quickly-traversing turret with a high rate of elevation, for tracking fast-moving aircraft.

The guns were heard by Baden in his camp before Ingolstadt, " The Prince and the Duke are engaged today to the westward ", he wrote to the Emperor.

Firearms with shoulder stocks and barrels less than 406 mm ( 16 in ) in length are classified as " short barreled rifles " ( under the US National Firearms Act or NFA ), and are sometimes restricted in the same way that short barrel shotguns and machine guns are.

" Firearms classified as machine guns are also not subject to the barrel length restriction.

While functionally identical to pistol-caliber carbines, these are banned in some places as " assault weapons " based on their cosmetic similarity to submachine guns.

Examples of PCCs that are derivatives of submachine guns but are rifles under Title I ( Gun Control Act ) include the HK USC ( derived from the HK. 45ACP UMP submachine gun ), the HK94 ( derived from the MP5 ), pistol-caliber AR-15s ( such as the Bushmaster Carbon 15 9 mm Carbine ), semi-automatic only versions of the Thompson by Auto-Ordnance and the FN PS90 ( derived from the FN P90 SMG ).

They are usually armed with machine guns and grenade launchers and usually tracked to provide enough tractive force to push blades and rakes.

Some of the most widely used types of modern cannon are howitzers, mortars, guns, and autocannon, although a few superguns — extremely large, custom-designed cannon — have also been constructed.

The graphics, by Adrian Carmack, Kevin Cloud and Gregor Punchatz, were modelled in various ways: although much was drawn or painted, several of the monsters were built from sculptures in clay or latex, and some of the weapons are toy guns from Toys " R " Us.

Although experts are legally prohibited from expressing their opinion of submitted evidence until after they are hired, sometimes a party can surmise beforehand, because of reputation or prior cases, that the testimony will be favorable regardless of any basis in the submitted data ; such experts are commonly disparaged as " hired guns.

O'Banion drew his guns and fired at Dave, severely wounding him in the stomach.

Use of two guns was therefore a reasonable compromise, as this allowed one gun to be cocked as the other is being fired, in practical terms doubling the rate of fire and the available number of bullets.

" Signal guns were fired to bring in the foraging parties and picquets as the French and Bavarian troops tried to draw into battle-order to face the unexpected threat.

General Edmund Allenby used infantry, to successfully attack the strong Ottoman front line, under cover of an artillery barrage. This creeping barrage lifted and moved forward at a rate of between 50 yards ( 46 m ), 75 yards ( 69 m ) and 100 yards ( 91 m ) per minute, while 4. 5-inch howitzers fired on points beyond the barrage augmented by the guns of two destroyers firing from the Mediterranean Sea.

Such tactics were successfully used by the French, for example, at the Battle of Friedland, when sixty-six guns fired a total of 3, 000 roundshot and 500 rounds of grapeshot, inflicting severe casualties to the Russian forces, whose losses numbered over 20, 000 killed and wounded, in total.

The British infantry, having formed infantry squares, took heavy losses from the French guns, while their own cannon fired at the cuirassiers and lancers, when they fell back to regroup.

Pump-action and semiautomatic guns require that the fired round be ejected and a new one be loaded, which takes time.

Automatic rifles such as the Browning Automatic Rifle were in common use by the military during the early part of the 20th century, and automatic rifles that fired handgun rounds, known as submachine guns, also appeared in this time.

During the American charge up San Juan and Kettle Hills, the three guns fired a total of 18, 000. 30 Army rounds in eight and one-half minutes ( an average of over 700 rpm per gun ) against Spanish troop positions along the crest of both hills, wreaking terrible carnage.

As with the Von der Tann design, which was drawn up at a similar time, all guns could be fired either side in broadsides, meaning more guns could come to bear than with the Helgoland design, despite having fewer in total.

Light machine guns are small enough to be fired and are hand-held like a rifle, but are more effective when fired from a prone position.

To minimize this, most air-cooled guns are fired only in short bursts or at a reduced rate of fire.

Recoil-operated machine guns were light enough to be moved by one man, were easier to move through rough terrain, and could be fired from a lower, protected position.

In addition to serving as backup guns, revolvers still fill the specialized niche role as a shield gun ; law enforcement personnel using a " bulletproof " ballistic shield ( Gun shield ) sometimes opt for a revolver instead of a self-loading pistol, because the slide of a pistol may strike the front of the shield when fired.

Submachine guns may only be owned by licensed collectors, but cannot be fired in full-automatic mode.

The system of odd numbered rounds is said to have been originated by Samuel Pepys, Secretary to the Navy in the Restoration, as a way of economising on the use of powder, the rule until that time having been that all guns had to be fired.

In the British Empire ( originally in the maritime and hinterland sphere of influence of the East India Company, HEIC, later transformed into crown territories ), mainly in British India, the numbers of guns fired as a gun salute to the ruler of a so-called princely state became a politically highly significant indicator of his status, not governed by objective rules, but awarded ( and in various cases increased ) by the British paramount power, roughly reflecting his state's socio-economic, political and / or military weight, but also as a prestigious reward for loyalty to the Raj, in classes ( always odd numbers ) from three to 21 ( seven lacking ), for the " vassal " indigenous rulers ( normally hereditary with a throne, sometimes raised as a personal distinction for an individual ruling prince ).

But at the same time, the new weight of armour slowed them, and the huge guns needed to penetrate that armour fired at very slow rates.

The result was a small torpedo boat 50 to 100 feet ( 15 to 30 m ) in length with maximum speed of 30 to 50 knots ( 56 to 93 km / h ), carrying two to four torpedoes fired from simple fixed launchers and several machine guns.

Before guns are fired, the 1889 Apia cyclone blows in and sinks all the ships, American and German.

Shells of quick-firing guns, fired at short range, would explode in the water before hitting it.

Projectile pyrotechnics may be dropped from aircraft, fired from rocket or artillery, or deployed by flare guns or handheld percussive tubes.

Giving him abilities ranging from ( but not limited to ) air cannons in his hands and rear end, guns in his wrists, and the ability to extend the front part of his lower body outward, making him look like a backwards centaur.

Factors such as the wide availability of assault rifles and carbines and the increasing use of body armor have combined to limit the appeal of submachine guns to government agencies.

Most revolver cartridges have a rim at the base of the case that is larger than the case body is and which seats against or into the cylinder block to provide headspace control ( to keep the cartridge from moving too far forward in the cylinder chamber ) and to provide for easy extraction in guns using a claw extractor ( most double-action designs ).

When the next Paulista army, 800 strong, attacked the missions in 1641 they were met by a body of Christian Guaraní armed with guns on the Acaray River.

Selena tells Hannah that they will go on ; they pick up their guns and walk away from Jim's lifeless body.

In most small arms, the momentum is transferred to the ground through the body of the shooter ; while in heavier guns such as mounted machine guns or cannons, the momentum is transferred to the ground through its mount.

Major C. F. Westell, a ballistics authority, said, " I can certainly describe as sheer nonsense the statement that cartridges of machine guns or pistols detonated in a fire can penetrate a human body.

* Morrison himself stated that he disposed one each of his three 6-pounder guns to support each of his three detachments ( Pearson, Barnes and the main body ).

The German parachute harness, with a single strap attached to the body making the paratrooper land on his hands and knees in a forward roll, did not allow for heavier equipment such as rifles and machine guns to be safely carried during jumps.

The proliferation of high-quality body armor has begun to make guns that fire pistol ammunition ( such as Heckler & Koch's earlier MP5 submachine gun or USP pistol ) ineffective.

The cordon and search went through 2, 400 apartments, 53 additional buildings and seized: more than 220 AK-47 assault rifles, along with a number of machine guns, pistols and other rifles ; five rocket propelled grenades and 15 RPG sights ; 10 grenades ; 12 mortar sights ; various electrical components associated with improvised explosive devise construction ; Russian-made night vision devices ; protective masks ; 24 plates of body armor and a U. S .- made vest ; Saddam Hussein paraphernalia ; and 16 cases of U. S. military meals, ready to eat.

In Jonathan Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn, a character refers to it as " the only body of water in the world that is 90 percent guns.

Power guns were used ( in Brothers, Ian uses his pistol to slag a lock, sealing the room into which he has placed Kensie's body ), as well as sonic cannons.

It can produce many different weapons such as guns and swords from its body, although these are probably weapons taken from its victims and stored inside itself.

Standard pistols and submachine guns chambered for pistol rounds had proven ineffective against armored soldiers and compact lightweight weapons capable of penetrating body armor were needed.

Like assault rifles and carbines, PDWs can also penetrate body armor, while traditional pistol caliber submachine guns cannot.

Soult was able to refit his corps, which had been on the march and fighting since 9 November, with the captured stores so that, with his stragglers now closed up on the main body, he was able to begin his march on Portugal on 1 February with a strength of 19, 000 infantry, 4, 000 cavalry and 58 guns.

Investigators did not have a murder weapon or a body, and investigations into Capano's records in buying guns was not revealing.

After his death in 1884, Pocatello's body was interred in a deep spring in Idaho along with his clothing, guns, knives, and hunting equipment.

Piercing guns have been widely criticized as dangerous among professional body piercers.

Piercing guns are widely criticized in the body piercing community.

However, some supporters of the use of piercing guns point out that professional body piercers have a vested interest in attempts to discredit piercing guns, as they are in direct competition with establishments using guns, but charge prices per piercing that are considerably higher in cost.