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• n  a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel)
• n  large but transportable armament
• n  a person who shoots a gun (as regards their ability)
• n  a professional killer who uses a gun
• n  a hand-operated pump that resembles a revolver; forces grease into parts of a machine
• n  a pedal that controls the throttle valve
• n  the discharge of a firearm as signal or as a salute in military ceremonies
  two runners started before the gun
  a twenty gun salute
• v  shoot with a gun

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• artillery
• heavy weapon
• ordnance
• gunman
• gunslinger
• hired gun
• gun for hire
• triggerman
• hit man
• hitman
• torpedo
• shooter
• grease-gun
• accelerator
• accelerator pedal
• gas pedal
• gas
• throttle

News & Articles

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• Gun Stocks Soar as Debate Continues
  Gun Stocks Soar as Debate Continues        
  June 21, 2013 - The Motley Fool
• Gun range noise annoys Montgomery residents
  Point Blank Gun Store & Shooting Range in Blue Ash has received complaints from a Montgomery resident since it opened, but officials from both cities say the range is operating well within the law.
  June 21, 2013 - The Cincinnati Enquirer
• Gun control: Doing it right
  THERE'S SMART gun control and not-so-smart gun control. The latter type imposes more restrictions on law-abiding citizens. It creates mostly frustration and red tape. Criminals ignore such provisions - like they do with existing laws.
  June 21, 2013 - Savannah Morning News

Quotes

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• John Mara in Houston Chronicle
  Asked if he knows what the scope of those inquiries are, Mara said: "I do not know, no. I guess the circumstances of how he got shot, whose gun it was. There are a lot of questions like that that are still unanswered."
• Kurt Vonnegut in MSNBC
  When Hemingway killed himself he put a period at the end of his life; old age is more like a semicolon,Vonnegut said with a wheezy laugh worthy of a long-term chain smoker. "My father, like Hemingway, was a gun nut and was very unhappy...