Weapons
- sticker
- a short knife with a pointed blade used for piercing or stabbing
- dirk
- a relatively long dagger with a straight blade
- throw stick
- a curved piece of wood; when properly thrown will return to thrower
- carbine
- light automatic rifle
- twenty-two rifle
- a .22-caliber rifle
- firelock
- a muzzle loader that had a flintlock type of gunlock
- blunderbuss
- a short musket of wide bore with a flared muzzle
- paintball gun
- an air gun used in the game of paintball; designed to simulate a semiautomatic
- dirty bomb
- an atom bomb that leaves considerable radioactive contamination
- Saturday night special
- a cheap handgun that is easily obtained
- dumdum bullet
- a soft-nosed small-arms bullet that expands when it hits a target and causes a gaping wound
- Dragunov
- a sniper rifle with a telescopic sight
- semiautomatic
- a pistol that is a semiautomatic firearm capable of loading and firing continuously
- Browning automatic rifle
- a portable .30 caliber automatic rifle operated by gas pressure and fed by cartridges from a magazine; used by United States troops in World War I and in World War II and in the Korean War
- cannon
- heavy automatic gun fired from an airplane
- machine gun
- a rapidly firing automatic gun (often mounted)
- sling
- a simple weapon consisting of a looped strap in which a projectile is whirled and then released
- botulismotoxin
- potent bacterial toxin produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum that causes botulism; can be used as a bioweapon
- sawed-off shotgun
- a shotgun with short barrels
- Minuteman
- a strategic weapon system using a guided missile of intercontinental range; missiles are equipped with nuclear warheads and dispersed in hardened silos
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