A gun is an aimable weapon that fires projectiles at high velocity, or a device that resembles such a weapon used for other purposes (e.g., glue gun) in common usage. The term is also used for types of artillery with long barrels that fire at a relatively flat trajectory.

The term gun is often used as a synonym to firearm, but in specialist use refers only to smoothbore firearms and naval artillery (and thus excluding rifles).

Most guns are designed to kill people or animals, with a minority being designed for sporting purposes.

See Firearm for the main rifle and gun page.

Contents

1 Related topics 1.1 Types of weapons 1.2 Theory 1.3 Politics and society 1.4 Lists

Related topics

Types of weapons

Airgun Anti-aircraft Anti-Materiel Rifle Anti-Tank Rifle Arquebus Artillery Assault rifle Autocannon Brown Bess Cannon Carbine Charleville musket Combat shotguns Derringer Directed Energy Weapons Duelling pistols

Electroshock gun Flintlock Gatling gun Handgun Howitzer Long gun Machine gun Machine pistol Matchlock Metal Storm Mortar Musket Muzzleloader Pistol Pneumatic Railgun

Recoilless rifle Revolver Rifle Saturday-night special Sawn-off shotgun Semi-automatic/self-loading pistol Semi-automatic Shotgun Silencer Single-shot Small arms Sniper rifle Squirt gun Submachine gun Supergun Wheellock

Theory

• Ballistics
• Electrothermal-chemical technology
• Firearm action
• Optics
• Physics of firearms
• Terminal ballistics

Politics and society

• Gun law
• Gun politics
• Gun safety
• Non-violence

Lists

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• 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 submachineguns
• Lists of weapons in video games
• Military technology and equipment