"WEAPON"

[Chuck]

That's that sorted then eh BamBam

[Browning_grrl]

That's that sorted then eh BamBam

Actually not. Coz the 3rd Battalion at Parris Island never has any 'guns', so we never ever chanted that (silly) mantra.... razz

[Charlotte the flyer]

Just as an aside, where does 'Gat' come from? Is it from that old compression air pistol?

[Browning_grrl]

Just as an aside, where does 'Gat' come from? Is it from that old compression air pistol?

It was an abbreviation of Gatling Gun - i.e. a machine gun. Prohibition era gangsters used it mostly to mean the Thompson gun which was in frequent use then. Eventually it got used for all guns. ( my great-uncle was a bootlegger in Detroit back then - we heard a lot of stories..... )

[DW58]

Well thanks for that Browning_grrl

[Gundoc]

A small arm is anything 30mm and under.
A gun is anything over that. Interestingly, even an 81mm mortar is a small arm

[Browning_grrl]

A small arm is anything 30mm and under.
A gun is anything over that. Interestingly, even an 81mm mortar is a small arm

Not in the USMC. An 81mm bomb is ordnance.

[Blu]

A small arm is anything 30mm and under.
A gun is anything over that. Interestingly, even an 81mm mortar is a small arm

Not in the USMC. An 81mm bomb is ordnance.

I think Gundoc was referring to the mortar tube itself and not the bomb. Likewise the British Army refers to the bomb as ordnance.

[Gundoc]

Just the tubes, they're the bits I deal with

[Browning_grrl]

OK - it was the bits that go "boom" that I dealt with....... :)