A gas gun can be:
- A projectile-firing gun powered by compressed air:
- Air gun
- Airsoft gun
- A Less-lethal launcher, especially when loaded with CS gas grenades.
- A Gas pistol
- Devices described as pneumatic cannons:
- Spud gun
- M61 Vulcan (also hydraulically operated)
- Dynamite gun
- A gun that fires a stream of gas. This can be for these purposes among others:-
- To generate a loud noise as a bird scarer
- For propulsion in space: see Manned Maneuvering Unit#NASA "gas gun"
- Light gas gun, a velocity generating device used in physics experiments.
Famous quotes containing the words gas and/or gun:
“one pale woman all alone,
The daylight kissing her wan hair,
Loitered beneath the gas lamps’ flare,
With lips of flame and heart of stone.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“As for fowling, during the last years that I carried a gun my excuse was that I was studying ornithology, and sought only new or rare birds. But I confess that I am now inclined to think that there is a finer way of studying ornithology than this. It requires so much closer attention to the habits of the birds, that, if for that reason only, I have been willing to omit the gun.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)