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A gun is a weapon that fires projectiles at high velocity, or an object resembling the weapon but used for other purposes, commonly tools.
In weaponry, 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, thus excluding rifles. Types of guns vary and the most powerful take active armament procedures in militaries around the world. Some of the guns used by military personnel include:
The word gun is also applied to some more or less vaguely gun-like tools, glue gun for example.
See also
- Firearm
- Wiktionary explains the etymology of the word.fa:تفنگ