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Contents 1 Dictionary article? 2 This is the pure form of Gun 3 Would this benefit from semiprotection? 4 Addition to the List 5 God 6 Why are biceps called "guns"? 7 Recent Vandalism 8 Idiot Alert, NVM User LWF Corrected the Vandalism

[edit] Dictionary article?

Maybe this article should simply disambiguate?

• Gun is correctly used for an artillery gun of relatively flat trajectory
• It is also correctly used for shotgun
• It is often used in the sense of firearm, but this usage is often considered to be incorrect, particularly in military and shooting circles.
• Gun is also used for a variety of devices which eject something, or are shaped like a pistol: soldering gun, staple gun, glue gun
• and so on.

The article as it stands is almost a dictionary entry.

By the way, a gun's propellant is rarely gunpowder; and I don't think air should be featured (it is a minor usage, perhaps)

Pol098 17:29, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

OK

This quite a discussion going on.

I reset the page as it had been entirely deleted, as well as cleaned it up a bit. As for gun being only artillery, from a purely military standpoint, yes. From a 'public' standpoint, however, no. To the general public, a gun is any form of one-man firearm. And this turned into a LOAD of edits, since I seem to be blind today, and missed things I then saw later.

DannyBoy2k 19:03, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] This is the pure form of Gun

This article should be restricted to cannon and artillery pieces.. not this:

Gregorydavid 11:43, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

This is only the military definition, the common usage is that it is a tool that fires a projectile.--Omnicog 14:07, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, im in the canadian artillery and ive been drilled to death to call rifles rifles, and machine guns machine guns. However, the military use is not necessarily the correct use. Perhaps including a section of 'Other uses' or 'Military use' could straighten this out. A gun is anything that can be called a gun. A radar gun IS a gun, its just a different type.

[edit] Would this benefit from semiprotection?

When trying to revert to a good version (where I had to skip about two or three different users), I got into about two or three edit conflicts, all vandalism or discussion. A look at this article's history shows a lot of vandalism. Would this article benefit from a semiprotect? --Deathphoenix ʕ 20:59, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Yes, please do so. --D.E. Watters 21:12, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Okay, will do the next time I see a lot of vandalism (since it was eight days since the last bout of constant vandalism). --Deathphoenix ʕ 12:51, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

I just did it. im sick of reverting and its clearly a commonly vandalized article. i also forgot to use the edit summary. sorry thuglas^talk|edits 19:14, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Addition to the List

I added Zip gun to the list of guns, kind of surprised that it wasn't there, seeing the extensiveness of the list. There are bound to be more unlinked gun type articles out there. Missing links to already existing articles, just another small problem wikipedia is working on.--Exander 07:46, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] God

IIRC Gun was the african god of iron and War. If so than that should be added --alex 05:15, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Why are biceps called "guns"?

I hear this all the time at the gym so can anyone tell me how biceps became to be called "guns"?

Its a good question but even a better point. I think it should be disambiguated, as its quite well known slangthuglas^talk|edits 19:03, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Recent Vandalism

To any and all administrators,

Protect this article! It has been vandalized repeatedly and constantly, and I've only seen a few legitimate anon edits. There is little or no reason not to protect it.--LWF 03:56, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

--I agree, please protect it. Idiots adding crap and blanking. (70.48.37.4 08:43, 14 December 2006 (UTC))

I also agree. Vandalism appears to be coming from multiple users. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.233.36.182 (talk) 18:41, 16 March 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Idiot Alert, NVM User LWF Corrected the Vandalism

Blanked a ton of this article and added little comments. (70.48.37.4 08:38, 14 December 2006 (UTC))