Weapons
- Thompson submachine gun
- a .45-caliber submachine gun
- shooting iron
- a firearm that is held and fired with one hand
- smoothbore
- a firearm that has no rifling
- rifle ball
- a bullet designed to be fired from a rifle; no longer made spherical in shape
- assault gun
- any of the automatic rifles or semiautomatic rifles with large magazines designed for military use
- Gatling gun
- an early form of machine gun having several barrels that fire in sequence as they are rotated
- piece
- a portable gun
- butt shaft
- a blunt arrow without a barb; an arrow used for target practice
- riot gun
- a firearm designed to disperse rioters rather than to inflict serious injury or death
- gas bomb
- a bomb laden with chemical agents that are released when the bomb explodes
- scimitar
- a curved oriental saber; the edge is on the convex side of the blade
- ABM
- a defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles
- Excalibur
- the legendary sword of King Arthur
- gas gun
- a gun that fires gas shells
- Maxim gun
- an obsolete water-cooled machine gun having a single barrel
- self-loader
- a firearm that reloads itself
- nerve gas
- a toxic gas that is inhaled or absorbed through the skin and has harmful effects on the nervous and respiratory system
- carbine
- light automatic rifle
- pike
- medieval weapon consisting of a spearhead attached to a long pole or pikestaff; superseded by the bayonet
- gat
- a gangster's pistol
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