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)
“Though I had not come a-hunting, and felt some compunctions about accompanying the hunters, I wished to see a moose near at hand, and was not sorry to learn how the Indian managed to kill one. I went as reporter or chaplain to the hunters,—and the chaplain has been known to carry a gun himself.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)