A gun is a ranged weapon designed to use a shooting tube (gun barrel) to launch typically solid projectiles, but can also project pressurized liquid (e.g. water guns/cannons, spray guns for painting or pressure washing, projected water disruptors, and technically also flamethrowers), gas (e.g. light-gas gun) or even charged particles (e.g. plasma gun). Solid projectiles may be free-flying (as with bullets and artillery shells) or tethered (as with Taser guns, spearguns and harpoon guns). A large-caliber gun is also referred to as a cannon.
The means of projectile propulsion vary according to designs, but are traditionally effected pneumatically by a high gas pressure contained within the barrel tube, produced either through the rapid exothermic combustion of propellants (as with firearms), or by mechanical compression (as with air guns). The high-pressure gas is introduced behind the projectile, pushing and accelerating it down the length of the tube, imparting sufficient launch velocity to sustain its further travel towards the target once the propelling gas ceases acting upon it after it exits the muzzle. Alternatively, new-concept linear motor weapons may employ an electromagnetic field to achieve acceleration, in which case the barrel may be substituted by guide rails (as in railguns) or wrapped with magnetic coils (as in coilguns).
The means of projectile propulsion vary according to designs, but are traditionally effected pneumatically by a high gas pressure contained within the barrel tube, produced either through the rapid exothermic combustion of propellants (as with firearms), or by mechanical compression (as with air guns). The high-pressure gas is introduced behind the projectile, pushing and accelerating it down the length of the tube, imparting sufficient launch velocity to sustain its further travel towards the target once the propelling gas ceases acting upon it after it exits the muzzle. Alternatively, new-concept linear motor weapons may employ an electromagnetic field to achieve acceleration, in which case the barrel may be substituted by guide rails (as in railguns) or wrapped with magnetic coils (as in coilguns).
by Α February 1, 2022
Get the Gunmug. from chinese “gu2ne2ra1” from proto-hindi “kuna” meaning a weapon from western sanskrit “kyuna” meaning either a. a trap or b. a complicated device from old afghani “chuna” meaning a trap from proto-rus “suchana” meaning a food often confused for “gechuna” meaning a trap from proto-indo-german “kechu na” meaning mud from the proto-anglo-russian “k’chun” meaning quicksand
by rydersacramento July 6, 2024
Get the gunmug. Media clearly made by Hollywood or some other big budget execs pushing democrat talking points, usually against guns. Example being most cop shows, where officers are portrayed as the only ones competent with guns and civilians with guns are portrayed as trigger-happy gun nuts.
“Are those high capacity double barrel magazine extended clips, allowing you to fire a bigger bullet? You know assault weapons are illegal in Commiefornia, right?”
“Actually assault weapon is a very loose term, usually used by anti-gun people applied to any big black rifle to fear monger against guns. This is some State Mandated Anti-Gun Slop (totally low-key name drop)”
“Actually assault weapon is a very loose term, usually used by anti-gun people applied to any big black rifle to fear monger against guns. This is some State Mandated Anti-Gun Slop (totally low-key name drop)”
by everythingelseistakenbruhh July 15, 2025
Get the State Mandated Anti-Gun Slopmug. Made famous in the anime, “Yu Yu Hakusho” you don’t shoot a beam of energy from your finger. Instead it’s when you’re fucking and the gash is so good you don’t pull out and your spirit energy busts out ya cock.
Kendall: Bro I got some crazy tang last night. I slipped and let the spirit gun rip. 😬
Greene: That’s crazy bro but I was there remember? That wasn’t tang…that was my bussy!
Dev: OH SHIT BRO
Kendall: Nah that never happened bro…it wasn’t you.
Greene: That’s crazy bro but I was there remember? That wasn’t tang…that was my bussy!
Dev: OH SHIT BRO
Kendall: Nah that never happened bro…it wasn’t you.
by Moe Lester THDT January 24, 2025
Get the Spirit Gunmug. When 'that' friend holds up both of their fingers in the shape of guns waiting for you to understand the unfunny joke they just told.
by doucheguns August 12, 2014
Get the douche gunsmug. When a gun is said is labelled bad just for being the class of gun or type of gun it is and the gun is not labelled for the actual statistics it may occur to show off to the world like accuracy or fire rate but it's just taken for the class of what it is.
"Little Timmy over there hates the M1911" "why" "not because it's bad or anything but because it's a pistol" "that's very gun racist"
by Proguy67 July 26, 2017
Get the gun racistmug. A nickname for the original M16 rifle given to it by us troops due to its use of polymer parts and being lightweight, and also given that it was fragile and unreliable in its earliest iterations.
by Cakebutt September 10, 2025
Get the Mattel gunmug.