Gun

For other uses of the word, see gun (disambiguation)

A gun is a mechaical device that fires projectiles at high velocity, using a propellant such as gun powder or compressed air.

In weaponry, the term is also used for types of artillery that utilize a smooth barrel. The term gun is often used as a synonym to firearm, but usually refers only to smoothbore firearms and naval artillery, thus excluding rifles. Types of guns vary and the most powerful take active armament procedures in militaries around the world.

The word gun is also applied to some more or less vaguely gun-like tools, glue gun for example.

See also

See Firearm for the main rifle and gun page.

Gun Related topics

Types of weapons

Airgun Anti-aircraft Anti-Materiel Rifle Anti-Tank Rifle Arquebus Artillery Assault rifle Autocannon Blowgun Brown Bess Cannon Carbine Charleville musket Combat shotgun Derringer Directed Energy Weapons Duelling pistol Electroshock gun Flintlock

Gatling gun Gyrojet Handgun Howitzer Light gas gun Long gun Machine gun Machine pistol Matchlock Metal Storm Mortar Musket Muzzle-loader Pistol Pneumatic Railgun Recoilless rifle Revolver Rifle

Saturday night special Sawn-off shotgun Semi-automatic/self-loading pistol Semi-automatic rifle Shotgun Silenced Single-shot Small arms Smart Gun Smoothbore Sniper rifle Squirt gun Submachine gun Supergun Wheellock Tank gun

Theory

• Ballistics
• Electrothermal-chemical technology
• Firearm action
• Optics
• Physics of firearms
• Terminal ballistics
• Stopping Power

Politics and society

• Gun culture
• Gun law
• Gun politics
• Gun safety
• Non-violence

Lists

• List of aircraft weapons
• List of common WWII weapons
• List of crew served weapons of the US Armed Forces
• List of firearms
• List of individual weapons of the US Armed Forces
• List of modern armament manufacturers
• List of prototype WWII weapons
• List of secondary and special issue WWII weapons
• List of submachine guns
• Lists of weapons in video games
• Military technology and equipment