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:
“Droning a drowsy syncopated tune,
Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon,
I heard a Negro play.
Down on Lenox Avenue the other night
By the pale dull pallor of an old gas light”
—Langston Hughes (1902–1967)
“I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say ‘you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word.’”
—David Mamet, U.S. screenwriter, and Brian DePalma. Al Capone (Robert DeNiro)