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[edit] Dictionary article?

MY name is Web Taker and I am now the owner of every website this is posted on and if you meet me lucky you just ask me to take this of the web u want. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.171.206.44 (talk) 07:37, 26 May 2008 (UTC)



Maybe this article should simply disambiguate?

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:

U.S. Army soldier with a compact M249 variant
U.S. Army soldier with a compact M249 variant

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 thuglastalk|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) That would be interesting if its true. Can you give more details though? For starters, which African culture the god belonged to and possibly where you learned this from. (IIRC stands for If I Recall Correctly- for those of you who don't know) -Andrew

[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 slangthuglastalk|edits 19:03, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

It would be hard to cite this though. I mean i feel like it's common knowledge that this comes from a joke about yourarms being so strong that they are as effectve as other weaponds like guns.

-andrew

Guns and Arms are synonymous depending on the situation

[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))

[edit] Eytmology?

Ca someone find out and source the etymology of the word 'gun'? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 138.89.132.41 (talk) 18:02, 27 April 2007 (UTC).

[edit] List of Weapons

Paintball guns and airsoft guns are not weapons by any stretch of the imagination. Having these listed in the list of weapons contributes nothing to the definition of guns as weapons. Furthermore, the untruth of the implicit statement erodes the credibility of the article. Consider removing them from the list. --64.180.87.252 23:58, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Minor Edit

I've removed the bit that goes something like: "It is also used to refer to the person holding the gun rather than the gun itself, as in 'a hired gun.'" This is an example of synecdoche, rather than a comment about the usage of the term gun, so I felt it was unnecessary.

[edit] Things that fire projectiles

It seems to me that the common usage includes anything that fires a projectile, whether or not it is used as a weapon. (See Nail gun and Spud gun). Also, I'm surprised Railgun and Coilgun aren't mentioned here, since they even fit the narrower definition. 129.199.159.36 (talk) 04:39, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Definition of a gun

The definition of a gun is not "....a common name given to an object that propels another object or projectile", if this was true, then a crossbow, a longbow or anything that projects an object is a gun. Even by that definition, a person throwing a knife is considered a gun. The real definition of a gun is, "any object that has a barrel or a metal tube that uses an EXPLOSIVE FORCE to propel or project an object." The explosive force is the key phrase in the sentence.

Felton22 (talk) 21:06, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] For being such an important article

It's quite short. The list is bigger than the rest of the article. Isn't a gun a pretty important encyclopedic subject? klosterdev (talk) 21:35, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Um... what???

Why do we have a picture of a BOAT on the top of an article about GUNS?

Don't you find that just a BIT confusing. If the primary objective of the article is to illustrate guns, we should be shown a should be a typical gun, not an overhead view of a boat, with the guns not even very visible.

Perhaps that picture should be moved to the "terminology" section:
In military usage, the term "gun" refers to heavy and light artillery that fires projectiles at high velocity, such as naval guns (which are never referred to as cannons) or tank guns.
Regardless, this article needs some help, hence the {{cleanup}} tag. --tc2011 (talk) 03:16, 28 May 2008 (UTC)