gun

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

Never, he'd once told Joyce, had he encountered any man or situation that called for a gun.

As he crossed to the side of the stall, Curt drew his gun and clicked back the hammer.

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

Curt was holding Jess's gun in his left hand.

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.

An assault gun is a gun or howitzer mounted on a motor vehicle or armored chassis, designed for use in the direct fire role in support of infantry when attacking other infantry or fortified positions.

`` Put your gun on the desk, Marshal ''.

: A: All Republicans are against gun control.

The average reader of this magazine owns more than one gun ( we ran a survey to find out ) but he's always on the lookout for new and better arms.

Bulgarian trooper fires an M2 Browning. 50 cal machine gun at the Novo Selo training range

Mechanical analog computers were very important in gun fire control in World War II, The Korean War and well past the Vietnam War ; they were made in significant numbers.

British and American forces also deployed vehicles designed for a close support role, but these were conventional tanks whose only significant modification was the replacement of the main gun with a howitzer.

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.

* 1881 – In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.

He lifted the skirt of Macklin's coat, took his gun from its holster, tossed it onto the desk.

In the post-WWII era, vehicles fitting into an " assault gun " category were developed as a light-weight, air-deployable, direct fire weapon for use with airborne troops.

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

This high pressure is achieved by burning the propellant in a contained area, either the chamber of a gun barrel or the combustion chamber of a rocket motor.

There are extensive remains of gun emplacements, barracks, etc.

Weaponry varies by a very wide degree between AFVs-lighter vehicles for infantry carrying, reconnaissance or specialist roles may have only a machine gun for self-defence ( or no armament at all ), whereas heavy self propelled artillery will carry large guns, mortars or rocket launchers.

Vickers Armstrong also developed a SPAGG based on the chassis of the Mk. E 6-ton light tank / Dragon Medium Mark IV tractor, mounting a Vickers QF-1 " Pom-Pom " gun of 40 mm.

* 1989 – A gun turret explodes on the, killing 47 sailors.

* 1840 – Hiram Stevens Maxim, American inventor ( Maxim gun ) ( d. 1916 )

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.