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

The term gun is often used as a synonym to firearm, but in its more technical usage refers only to artillery that fires projectiles at a high velocity along a flat trajectory, such as field guns, tank guns and anti-tank guns, and naval guns. Howitzers, mortars, and all hand-held firearms are excluded from this definition. The exception to this is the shotgun, which is hand-held, has a smooth bore and fires a cartridge of pellets.

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

Related topics

Types of weapons

Gunnery theory

Gunnery is the science and art of constructing, managing and firing of guns.

• 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

See also

• Firearm
• Raygun (or laser gun)
• Spud gun