A gun is any of several types of object that propels another object or projectile. A projectile is any object propelled through space by the exertion of a force which ceases after launch The projectile is generally fired through a hollow tube known as the gun's barrel. For the fictional characters see Gunbarrel (Transformers. A gun barrel is the tube usually Metal, through which a controlled Explosion The barrel's diameter, or caliber, determines the size of projectile used, which is usually designated in fractions of an inch or in millimeters. The term caliber or calibre designates the interior Diameter of a tube or the exterior diameter of a wire or rod Inches redirects here To see the Les Savy Fav album see Inches. The Millimetre ( American spelling: millimeter, symbol mm) is a unit of Length in the Metric system, equal to Differing from the musket, most modern guns are rifled, with a series of grooves spiraling along the barrel; exceptions include smoothbores on tanks, AFVs and some artillery. A musket is a muzzle -loaded Smoothbore Long gun, which is intended to be fired from the shoulder Rifling refers to the Helix -shaped pattern in the barrel of a Firearm, which imparts a spin to a Projectile around its long axis Smoothbore refers to a Firearm or Cannon which does not have a rifled barrel. A tank is a tracked, Armoured fighting vehicle designed for Front-line combat which combines Operational mobility and tactical An armoured fighting vehicle ( AFV) is a military Vehicle, protected by armour and armed with Weapons Most AFVs are equipped for driving in rugged Artillery (from French artillerie) is a military Combat Arm which employs any apparātus machine
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Terminology
The term "gun" is often used synonymously with "firearm," but this is common only for civilian usage. A firearm is a Tool that projects either single or multiple Projectiles at high velocity through a controlled explosion In military usage, the term "gun" refers to heavy and light artillery that fires projectiles at high velocity, such as naval guns (which are never referred to as cannons) or tank guns. Artillery (from French artillerie) is a military Combat Arm which employs any apparātus machine Naval Artillery or naval rifles refers to Warship -mounted Guns used in Naval warfare for attacking enemy vessels | NOTE Throughout this article "cannon" is used as BOTH the || singular and plural A tank gun is the main armament of a Tank. Modern tank guns are large- Caliber high-velocity guns capable of firing Kinetic energy penetrators By military terms, mortars and all hand-held firearms are excluded from the definition of guns. A mortar is a muzzle-loading Indirect fire weapon that fires shells at low velocities short ranges and high-arcing ballistic trajectories Two exceptions to this include: the shotgun, which is a smoothbore hand-held gun that fires a load of shot or a single projectile known as a slug, and the machine gun, which is a fully-automatic weapon mounted on a tripod or bipod and is almost always operated by a crew. A shotgun (also known as a scattergun) is a Firearm that is usually designed to be fired from the shoulder which uses the energy of a fixed shell to fire a number Smoothbore refers to a Firearm or Cannon which does not have a rifled barrel. Lead shot is a collective term for small balls of Lead. It is used primarily as Projectiles in Shotguns but is also used for a variety of other purposes For other uses of the phrase see Machine Gun (disambiguation.
The word "gun" is also applied to some more or less vaguely gun-like or gun-shaped tools such as staple guns, nail guns, and glue guns. A broader definition of a tool is an entity used to interface between two or more domains that facilitates more effective action of one domain upon the other A staple gun or powered stapler is a hand-held Machine used to drive heavy metal staples into wood or Masonry. A nail gun, nailgun or nailer is a type of Tool used to drive nails into Wood or some other kind of material Glue gun redirects here for the band Glue Gun see Glue Gun (band.
In a gun-type fission weapon the "gun" is part of a nuclear weapon. Gun-type fission weapons are fission -based Nuclear weapons whose design assembles their fissile material into a supercritical mass by the A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from Nuclear reactions either fission or a combination of fission and fusion. The projectile is fissile material that is fired and captured inside the device. In Nuclear engineering, a fissile material is one that is capable of sustaining a Chain reaction of Nuclear fission. In the case of nuclear artillery, it should not be confused with the gun that fires the whole warhead. Nuclear artillery is subset of limited- yield Tactical nuclear weapons, in particular those weapons that are launched from the ground at battlefield targets In a captive bolt gun the projectile is also caught within the mechanism. A captive bolt pistol (also variously known as a cattle gun, stunbolt gun, bolt gun, or stunner) is a device used for Stunning animals Such captive piston guns are often used to humanely stun farm animals for slaughter. [1]
A gunner is a member of the team charged with the task of operating and firing a gun.
History and technology
Types of guns
Military and sporting guns
- Artillery gun
- Autocannon
- Grenade launcher
- Machine Gun
- Mortar
- Recoilless rifle
- Small arms
Guns for training and entertainment
Politics and society
See also
References
External links
Artillery (from French artillerie) is a military Combat Arm which employs any apparātus machine The carronade was a short Smoothbore, Cast iron Cannon, developed for the Royal Navy by the Carron Company, an Ironworks A howitzer is a type of Artillery piece that is characterized by a relatively short barrel and the use of comparatively small explosive charges to propel projectiles A tank gun is the main armament of a Tank. Modern tank guns are large- Caliber high-velocity guns capable of firing Kinetic energy penetrators An autocannon is a rapid fire projectile Weapon. Autocannon often have a larger Caliber (calibre than a Machine gun (i A chain gun is a type of Machine gun or Automatic cannon that uses an external source of power rather than diverting energy from the cartridge to cycle the The Gatling gun is considered by some to have been the first Machine gun: although it did not automatically reload under its own power it was capable of firing continuously The minigun is a multi-barrel Machine gun with a high rate of fire (several thousand Rounds per minute) employing Gatling -style rotating barrels and an The mitrailleuse was a manually-fired Volley gun originally developed in Belgium in the 1850s by Fafschamps and improved during the early 1860s by Christophe and A grenade launcher is a Weapon that launches a Grenade with more accuracy higher velocity and to greater distances than a soldier could throw it by hand For other uses of the phrase see Machine Gun (disambiguation. A general purpose machine gun ( GPMG) in concept is a multi-purpose weapon a Machine gun intended to fill the role of either a Light machine gun or A heavy machine gun refers to either a larger-caliber high-power Machine gun or one of the smaller medium-caliber (rifle caliber machine guns meant for prolonged firing from A light machine gun or LMG is a Machine gun that is generally lighter than other machine guns of the same period and is usually designed to be carried A medium machine gun or MMG, in modern terms usually refers to a belt-fed Automatic firearm firing a full-power Rifle cartridge and For the weapon known in British Forces service as the LSW see SA80 For the weapon known in American service as the SAW see M249 A squad automatic A mortar is a muzzle-loading Indirect fire weapon that fires shells at low velocities short ranges and high-arcing ballistic trajectories A recoilless gun or recoilless rifle (RCL is a lightweight form of Weapon that allows the firing of a heavier projectile than would be practical with a recoiling Small arms is a term used by the Armed forces to refer to Infantry Weapons such as the Firearms that an individual soldier can carry A captive bolt pistol (also variously known as a cattle gun, stunbolt gun, bolt gun, or stunner) is a device used for Stunning animals The hand cannon ( Arabic: midfa; Chinese: 手[[wikt 銃|銃]] as it was called was the first handheld portable A machine pistol is a Handgun -style magazine -fed and self-loading Firearm, capable of fully automatic or burst fire and normally chambered A semi-automatic pistol is a type of Handgun that can be fired in semi-automatic mode firing one cartridge for each pull of the trigger A Howdah Pistol was a large-calibre handgun often with two or four barrels used in India and Africa during the period of British Colonial rule in the mid-to-late-nineteenth Saturday Night Special is a 60 minute long Comedy - Variety show. A mousegun is most often considered a category of small revolver or semi-automatic Handgun intended for self defense. A pocket pistol is an American term for any small pocket-sized Semi-automatic pistol or less-popular any other handgun (e rEVOLVEr is the fourth studio album by Swedish metal band The Haunted. The term long gun is used to describe classes of Firearm and Cannon with longer barrels than other classes The Arquebus (sometimes spelled harquebus, harkbus or hackbut; from Dutch haakbus, meaning "hook gun" is The blunderbuss is a muzzle-loading Firearm with a short large Caliber barrel, which is flared at the muzzle, and used with A musket is a muzzle -loaded Smoothbore Long gun, which is intended to be fired from the shoulder The musketoon is a shorter barrelled version of the Musket, and served in the roles of a Shotgun or Carbine. Wall guns were large Caliber smooth-bore Muskets that were used in the 16th through 18th centuries by defending forces to break the advance of enemy troops A personal defense weapon (often abbreviated PDW) is a compact semi-automatic or fully-automatic Firearm similar in most respects to a Submachine gun A rifle is a Firearm designed to be fired from the shoulder with a barrel that has a helical groove or pattern of grooves ("rifling" cut into the barrel walls An assault rifle is a Selective fire Rifle or Carbine (not to be confused with a semi-automatic only replica firing Ammunition with muzzle A Battle Rifle or Main Battle Rifle is a full-size Rifle designed for military use that fires a high-power rifle cartridge such as the U A carbine is a Firearm similar to a Rifle or Musket, but generally shorter and of lesser power An elephant gun is a large caliber Gun, Rifled or otherwise so named because they were originally developed for use by Big-game hunters for Elephants The term Express was first applied to hunting rifles and ammunition beginning in the middle 1800s to indicate a rifle or ammunition capable of higher than typical velocities The service rifle (also known as standard-issue rifle) of a given Army or Armed force is that which it issues as standard to its Soldiers In In Military and Law enforcement terminology a sniper rifle is a Rifle used to ensure Accurate placement of Bullets at longer A shotgun (also known as a scattergun) is a Firearm that is usually designed to be fired from the shoulder which uses the energy of a fixed shell to fire a number A combat shotgun is a Shotgun that is intended for use in an offensive role typically by a military force A Semi-automatic shotgun is a form of Shotgun that is able to fire a cartridge after every trigger squeeze without any manual chambering of another round being required as is A submachine gun (SMG is a Firearm that combines the automatic fire of a Machine gun with the cartridge of a Pistol, and is Tu Huo Qiang (Chinese 突[[wikt 火|火]] 枪) is one kind of early Long gun first appeared in 1259 the Projectile is called Zi Ke There are three types of airsoft gun spring gas and electric. BB guns are a type of Air gun designed to shoot projectiles called BB after the Birdshot pellet of approximately the same size PaintBallMarkerjpg|right|thumb|250px|Spyder VS2 Paintball Marker A water gun (or water pistol, squirt gun, or water blaster) is a type of Toy designed to shoot Water. The gun culture is a culture shared by people in the Gun politics debate generally those who advocate preserving gun Rights and who are against more gun control A gun law is a Law that pertains to Firearms Gun laws are highly dependent on date and location as they have changed along with developments in weapons and societies Gun politics is a set of legal issues surrounding the ownership use and regulation of firearms as well as safety issues related to firearms both through their direct use and through (For discussions on politics concerning firearms and gun safety see Gun politics. A firearm is a Tool that projects either single or multiple Projectiles at high velocity through a controlled explosionDictionary
gun
-noun
- (military) A cannon with relatively long barrel, operating with relatively low angle of fire, and having a high muzzle velocity. JP 1-02.
- (military) A cannon with tube length 30 calibers or more. See also: howitzer; mortar. JP 1-02.
- A very portable, short weapon, for hand use; a bullet or projectile-firing weapon; a handgun: a revolver, pistol, Derringer, zipgun, so forth.
- A less portable, long weapon; a bullet or projectile firing weapon; a rifle, either manual, automatic or semi-automatic; a musket or shotgun.
- Any weapon that launches a projectile from a tube, even if it is not a firearm, e.g., air-pressure pellet gun, air rifle, BB gun; or, a home-made firearm such as a potato gun.
- Any device or tool that projects a substance in a superficially similar fashion to a firearm, e.g., nail gun, squirt gun, spray gun, grease gun.
- A device or tool shaped like a pistol and operated in similar fashion by pulling a trigger with the index finger, e.g., rivet gun, screw gun, price-label gun.
- (surfing) A long surfboard designed for surfing big waves (not the same as a longboard, a gun has a pointed nose and is generally a little narrower).
- (colloquial, usually plural) biceps.
-verb
- (with “down”) To shoot someone or something, usually with a firearm.
- To speed something up.
- To offer vigorous support to a person or cause.
- To seek to attack someone; to take aim at someone.
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