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unusual facts about The Gun



Battle of Espinosa de los Monteros

The Gun, by C. S. Forester (author of the Horatio Hornblower series), begins with the Spanish retreat from Espinoza.

William Link

They also collaborated on several made-for-TV movies, including The Gun, My Sweet Charlie, That Certain Summer, The Judge and Jake Wyler, The Execution of Private Slovik, Charlie Cobb: A Nice Night for a Hanging, and Blacke's Magic; the last, which starred Hal Linden and Harry Morgan, was also developed into a short-lived TV series.


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10.4 cm Feldkanone M. 15

Because it was located on a 45 degree slope, the risk of it sliding down was considered too great, so the gun was relocated by lifting it with a Superpuma helicopter.

13.5 cm K 09

The gun, believed to be the only one remaining in existence, is currently on public display in the Wellington Botanic Garden.

85 mm antitank gun D-48

The gun was designed by the F. F. Petrov Design Bureau on the basis of the D-44 85-mm divisional gun and production of the D-48 began in 1953 at the No. 75 factory in Yurga.

A Bird In A Guilty Cage

On ABC, the gun-in-one-end-and-out-the-other gag also used in "A Star Is Bored" and "Tease for Two" was edited to remove the visual of Sylvester shooting himself in the butt.

A Touch of Cloth

Both threaten each other to drop the gun when Todd recognises the robber to be known as "Twitch" (Ben Bishop) and works for "Macratty".

Arthur Sclater

The banks of the river were covered in thick undergrowth, and while making his way through it, his breech loaded gun caught a twig, causing the gun to discharge.

Barry-Roubaix

The course is located in Barry County, Michigan at the Gun Lake Unit of Yankee Springs Recreation Area.

Becker Type M2 20 mm cannon

Despite this, the potential of the gun was such that the arsenal at Spandau was engaged to help develop and fine-tune the design, leading to a production contract for 120 Becker Type M2 guns in June 1916.

Bergmann MG 15nA machine gun

The majority of MG-15nA weapons were actually delivered to the Eastern and Palestine fronts where the German Asia Korps made the most significant use of the gun.

Charter Arms Bulldog

In the novel Gun Machine one of the discovered guns is a .44 Bulldog, which reveals to be a major clue when the gun turns out to be the same gun Son of Sam used, stolen from NYPD evidence.

Chicken gun

In the 1970s, Goodyear Aerospace in Litchfield Park, Arizona, United States, used a gun with a ceramic diaphragm to seal the compressed air in the tank from the gun's barrel.

Clive Shakespeare

For their debut album, Time Change... A Natural Progression (December 1972), Shakespeare co-wrote five tracks including the top 30 single, "You've Got the Gun".

Concealed carry in the United States

Although carry may be legal under State law in accordance with reciprocity agreements, the Federal Gun Free School Zones Act subjects an out-of-state permit holder to federal felony prosecution if they carry a firearm within 1000 feet of any K-12 school's property line.

Cristóbal Carbine

The gun's name is a reference to the San Cristóbal Province, which is the birthplace of the late Dominican dictator, Generalissimo Rafael Trujillo.

Edward Terrell

The resulting film, The Gun, included the American commentator Edward Morrow.

Frederick IX of Denmark

The gun carriage was pulled by 48 seamen and was escorted by honor guards from the Danish Army, Air Force, and Navy, as well as honor guards from France, Sweden, United Kingdom, and the United States.

French 75

The Canon de 75 modèle 1897, an innovative design that introduced, for the first time in field artillery history, a hydro-pneumatic recoil mechanism keeping the gun stable during firing and thus permitting high rates of accurate shell delivery.

G7 howitzer

In 2004, DLS partnered with General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS) to offer the gun in self-propelled form to the United States Army.

Gloster Sparrowhawk

The Sparrowhawk entered service with the Japanese Navy in 1921, with the 10 Sparrowhawk IIIs being used for flight training operations from ramps built on one of the gun turrets of the Battleship Yamashiro, as the carrier Hōshō was not yet ready.

Gun politics in Brazil

The gun ban proposal received mixed support in the press, while celebrities were generally in favor, and drew the attention of international NGOs such as the NRA and the IANSA who financed Brazilian anti-ban lobbying groups and right-wing press, most importantly Veja the Brazilian news magazine (indeed weekly publication of any kind) with the largest paid circulation in the country.

James Richard Haskell

James Richard Haskell was an American inventor chiefly remembered for his invention (with Azel S. Lyman) of a multi-charge gun which was intended to increase muzzle velocity by detonating additional propellant charges behind the projectile or shell as it moved up the gun's barrel and was a distant ancestor of the World War II German V-3 "supergun".

John J. Kirwin

For 30 minutes, secondary explosions in the gun room hampered fire-fighting efforts.

Kimberly Scott

In 2007, she appeared in the short films Sponsored By, Under The Gun, Open House, and Time Upon A Once that were made during the reality show On the Lot.

Kissing Time

Kissing Time, an earlier version of which was titled The Girl Behind the Gun, is a musical comedy with music by Ivan Caryll, book and lyrics by Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse, and additional lyrics by Clifford Grey.

Lockheed XF-104

An investigation later showed that one of the 20 mm cannon rounds had exploded in the breech, blowing the bolt out the rear of the gun and through the structure into the forward fuselage fuel cell.

Magnetic Battery

The guns were based on the French Canon de 155mm GPF and had a set of rubber tyres at front of the gun that allowed it to be easily towed by a tractor.

It is well known that the guns never fired on an enemy vessel; however, it is believed, although not confirmed, that the gun facing the harbour entrance did fire on an U.S. Navy PT boat "in mild astonishment" when it "arrived unannounced".

Maharaol

The gun salutes enjoyed by princely states that acceded to the Dominion of India on 14 August 1947 included one following Maharaol a Hereditary salute of 9-guns (11-guns personal) for H.H. the Maharaol of Baria

Marching fire

Soon, the gun was seen to be useful in marching fire assaults, notably by the Australian Corps in the July 1918 Battle of Hamel.

Miss Pross

Miss Pross leaves Madame Defarge's body there and escapes with Jerry Cruncher, but the psychological shock and the sound of the gun cause her to go deaf.

Nirbheek

The gun's simple mechanism is thought to have been based on earlier designs by Webley & Scott and Smith & Wesson.

Noonday Gun

The firing of the gun was famously mentioned in Noël Coward's humorous song "Mad Dogs and Englishmen".

Ordnance QF 13-pounder

For combat purposes the gun is long obsolete, yet it remains in service with the King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery for ceremonial purposes and as state saluting guns.

Otobreda 127/64

The gun can fire all standard 5 inch ammunition including the new Vulcano long range guided ammunition.

Pulau Sejahat

The gun battery positions on Pulau Sejahat could have been intended to protect the stretch of waters between Changi and Pulau Tekong, so as to extend the coverage provided by the neighbouring coastal defence batteries.

Puteaux APX Machine Gun

The gun was such a failure that it was immediately redesigned as the St. Étienne Mle 1907 machine gun.

QF 3.7-inch AA gun

In British service the gun replaced the 3 inch AA gun in Heavy Anti-Aircraft (HAA) Batteries of the Royal Artillery, almost always in Heavy Anti Aircraft Regiments, which were usually in an Anti-Aircraft Brigade.

Starting pistol

When electronic timing is used, a sensor is often affixed to the gun, which sends an electronic signal to the timing system upon firing.

The Aldington Gang

Unfortunately for Quested, in the confusion of the fight and being somewhat intoxicated, the man that he had turned to was a Midshipman of the blockade force, who immediately turned the gun on Quested and arrested him.

The Gun Runners

The Gun Runners, a 1958 film directed by Don Siegel, is the third adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's novel To Have and Have Not, starring Audie Murphy and Patricia Owens.

The Gun Seller

The Gun Seller (1996) is the first novel by English actor, musician, comedian, and writer Hugh Laurie.

The Gun Seller tells the story of retired Army officer Thomas Lang, who lives a somewhat hand-to-mouth existence in London, his attention focused mainly on drinking whisky and riding his motorcycle.

The Plainsman

John Lattimer (Charles Bickford), an agent for the gun makers, has supplied the Cheyenne Indians with repeating rifles, which enable them to kill half of the troopers at a United States Cavalry outpost.

The Way of the Gun

The Way of the Gun is a 2000 American crime film written and directed by Christopher McQuarrie and starring Ryan Phillippe, Benicio del Toro, Juliette Lewis, Taye Diggs, Nicky Katt, and James Caan.

Time to Drop the Gun

Time To Drop The Gun is the second studio album by the French band Freygolo

Tiro de Diu

After the defeat of the Muslim forces, the gun was sent to Lisbon, first being set in the Castle of São Jorge and, after 1640, in the Fortress of S. Julião da Barra, in Oeiras, to defend the mouth of the River Tagus.

Wimmersperg Spz

The gun was designed by Heinrich von Wimmersperg of Austria, who after World War II, moved to Detroit, USA.

Winchester Osgood

Without re-sighting the artillery piece, Osgood’s second in command Major Frederick Funston gave the order to fire the gun and the shell hit one of the blockhouses.