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Re: "WEAPON"
Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2015 2:18 pm
by Chuck
That's that sorted then eh BamBam
Re: "WEAPON"
Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2015 4:08 pm
by Browning_grrl
Chuck wrote: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....
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Re: "WEAPON"
Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2015 4:36 pm
by Charlotte the flyer
Just as an aside, where does 'Gat' come from? Is it from that old compression air pistol?
Re: "WEAPON"
Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2015 4:49 pm
by Browning_grrl
Charlotte the flyer wrote: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.....
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Re: "WEAPON"
Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2015 5:15 pm
by DW58
Re: "WEAPON"
Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2015 6:14 pm
by Gundoc
A small arm is anything 30mm and under.
A gun is anything over that. Interestingly, even an 81mm mortar is a small arm
Re: "WEAPON"
Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2015 8:04 pm
by Browning_grrl
Gundoc wrote: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.
Re: "WEAPON"
Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2015 8:35 pm
by Blu
Browning_grrl wrote:Gundoc wrote: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.
Re: "WEAPON"
Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2015 8:50 pm
by Gundoc
Just the tubes, they're the bits I deal with
Re: "WEAPON"
Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2015 9:08 pm
by Browning_grrl
OK - it was the bits that go "boom" that I dealt with....... :)
Well thanks for that Browning_grrl 