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  2. 100-ton gun - Wikipedia

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    The 100-ton gun (also known as the Armstrong 100-ton gun) [5] was a 17.72-inch (450 mm) rifled muzzle-loading (RML) gun made by Elswick Ordnance Company, the armaments division of the British manufacturing company Armstrong Whitworth, owned by William Armstrong. The 15 guns Armstrong made were used to arm two Italian battleships and, to counter ...

  3. M1857 12-pounder Napoleon - Wikipedia

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    1,485 ft/s (453 m/s) Effective firing range. 1,680 yd (1,536 m) The M1857 12-pounder Napoleon or Light 12-pounder gun or 12-pounder gun-howitzer was a bronze smoothbore muzzle-loading artillery piece that was adopted by the United States Army in 1857 and extensively employed in the American Civil War. The gun was the American-manufactured ...

  4. Firearm malfunction - Wikipedia

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    Failure to feed (FTF) is when a firearm fails to feed the next round into the firing chamber. Failure to feed is common when the shooter does not hold the firearm firmly (known as limp wristing), when the slide is not fully cycled by the preceding round, or due to problems with the magazine. It can also be caused by worn recoil springs, buffer ...

  5. High–low system - Wikipedia

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    The high–low system (or high–low pressure system, high–low propulsion system, high–low projection system) is a design of cannon and anti-tank warfare launcher using a smaller high-pressure chamber to store propellant. It allows a much larger projectile to be launched without the heavy equipment usually needed for large caliber weapons.

  6. Gauss gun - Wikipedia

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    Gauss gun. The Gauss gun (often called a Gauss rifle or Gauss cannon) is a device that uses permanent magnets and the physics of the Newton's cradle to accelerate a projectile. Gauss guns are distinct from and predate coil guns, although many works of science fiction (and occasionally the educators [1]) have confused the two.

  7. Why gun violence doesn't have any simple solutions and ...

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    So, when the unsettling pattern repeats — gun violence, partisan squabbles and frequent stalemate — keep in mind gun violence has multiple causes, and existing gun laws are just one piece of a ...

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