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HAND GUN [18 records]

Record 1 - external organization data 2021-05-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment - Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)
Key term(s)
  • Handgun Taskforce
  • Hand Gun Task Force
  • Hand Gun Taskforce
  • Handguns Task Force
  • Handguns Taskforce
  • Hand Guns Task Force
  • Hand Guns Taskforce

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir - Gendarmerie royale du Canada (GRC)

Spanish

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Record 2 2021-01-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Clothing Accessories
  • Hunting and Sport Fishing
  • Military Dress
CONT

Trigger mittens have separate sheaths for the thumb and index finger, making it possible to shoot a gun with one's hand covered.

OBS

trigger finger mitten; trigger mitten; trigger finger mitt; trigger mitt: designations usually used in the plural.

Key term(s)
  • trigger finger mittens
  • trigger mittens
  • trigger finger mitts
  • trigger mitts

French

Domaine(s)
  • Accessoires vestimentaires
  • Chasse et pêche sportive
  • Tenue militaire
OBS

mitaine à trois doigts; moufle à trois doigts : désignations habituellement utilisées au pluriel.

Key term(s)
  • mitaines à trois doigts
  • moufles à trois doigts

Spanish

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Record 3 2010-12-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Small Arms
  • Shooting (Sports)
DEF

Any firearm designed to be held and fired with one hand.

CONT

He also carried various special items, including a handgun and a kind of sound-and-light grenade, called a flash-bang, to scare off the polar bears that roam almost everywhere in the Arctic.

Key term(s)
  • hand gun
  • hand-gun

French

Domaine(s)
  • Armes légères
  • Tir (Sports)
DEF

Toute arme à feu conçue pour être tenue et tirée d'une main.

OBS

arme de poing : terme et définition uniformisés par le Groupe de travail de terminologie des armes légères.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Armas ligeras
  • Tiro (Deportes)
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Record 4 2007-03-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Control Systems (Electronic Instrumentation)
  • Guns (Land Forces)
  • Armour
CONT

... a trigger to enable firing of the gun selected by the gunner's hand control assembly when in manual mode. The trigger is enabled when the palm switch on the hand control assembly is released.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Systèmes cybernétiques de contrôle et de commande
  • Canons (Forces terrestres)
  • Arme blindée

Spanish

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Record 5 2007-03-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Guns (Land Forces)
  • Weapon Systems (Air Forces)
CONT

The Gun Control Unit(GCU)... controls and monitors the main gun. The GCU sets ammo [ammunition] selection and rate of fire using inputs from the commander's or gunner's hand control assemblies...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Canons (Forces terrestres)
  • Systèmes d'armes (Forces aériennes)

Spanish

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Record 6 2007-03-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Guns (Land Forces)
  • Armour
CONT

The gun control assembly(GCA)... controls and monitors the main gun. The GCA sets ammunition selection and rate of fire using inputs from the commander's or gunner's hand control assemblies...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Canons (Forces terrestres)
  • Arme blindée

Spanish

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Record 7 2007-02-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Control Instrumentation (Mechanical Components)
  • Guns (Land Forces)
  • Armour
CONT

The elevation manual drive assembly... provides the ability to elevate or depress the gun in manual mode. The elevation handcrank on the elevation manual drive assembly is equipped with a trigger to enable firing of the gun selected by the gunner's hand control assembly when in manual mode.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Dispositifs de commande (Composants mécaniques)
  • Canons (Forces terrestres)
  • Arme blindée

Spanish

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Record 8 2006-03-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Small Arms
CONT

The Thompson submachine gun or Tommy gun was invented by General John T. Thompson, it was the first hand held machine gun. Thompson was driven with the thought of creating a hand held machinegun that would help end the First World War.

CONT

The Thompson submachine gun, also known as the "Tommy Gun", was an American submachine gun (SMG) that became infamous during the Prohibition era. It was a common sight in gangster films of the time, being used both by criminals and by law enforcement officers. [It] was favored for its compact size and then high volume of automatic fire.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Armes légères
CONT

Au cours de la Deuxième guerre mondiale, les États-Unis produisirent diverses [...] mitraillettes. [...] Aucune n'atteignit la réputation de la première arme de Thompson, qui ajouta un nouveau mot, «Tommy-gun», au vocabulaire mondial.

CONT

La mitraillette Thompson de calibre .45 a été conçue en 1918 par le Gén John T. Thompson.

CONT

La mitraillette Thompson, surnommée «Tommygun» par les soldats, ne fut pas adoptée tout de suite par l'armée américaine.

Key term(s)
  • Tommy gun

Spanish

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Record 9 2005-05-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Carpets and Upholstery Textiles
DEF

A hand-tailoring operation to remove any knots and loose ends, insert missing tufts of surface yarns.

CONT

After a carpet is woven, it must be carefully inspected. Minor imperfections may be repaired by burling--a hand process. An electric tufting gun with a needle in its barrel is used to insert a missing bit of yarn in a tufted carpet. Custom designs may also be created with the gun.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tapis et textile d'ameublement
DEF

Procédé par lequel on remplace à la main les touffes manquantes.

Spanish

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Record 10 2004-11-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Small Arms
OBS

Jet propelled pistol.

OBS

13 mm Gyrojet handgun manufactured by MB Associates

Key term(s)
  • Gyrojet hand gun

French

Domaine(s)
  • Armes légères
OBS

Pistolet à propulsion.

Spanish

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Record 11 2001-08-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Armour
CONT

The 75mm weapon was elevated with a traditional hand wheel seen below the gun in this drawing and the weapon was fired(along with the Besa coaxial MG) mechanically from a pedal on the floor. Late modifications introduced an electrical firing switch on the elevating hand wheel with a foot pedal as backup.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Arme blindée

Spanish

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Record 12 2001-07-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Armour
CONT

The hand firing lever and rod is the simple mechanical hand method for firing the weapon when the electric solenoid is not working, typically used only as a backup firing mechanism. If you look closely, you will see that the firing rod is attached to the center pin of the electric firing solenoid, so using either one will actuate the firing lever and set off the percussion cap inside the shell when the gun is loaded and fired.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Arme blindée

Spanish

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Record 13 2001-05-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Field Artillery
  • Weapon Systems
CONT

... a data display unit(DDU), for an Abbot SP(self-propelled) gun, which receives and stores the predicted azimuth, fuze length and quadrant elevation, for display as required on the four-figure digital readout in the top left-hand corner of the panel.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Artillerie de campagne
  • Systèmes d'armes
CONT

[...] le coffret de visualisation destiné à un canon automoteur Abbot; ce coffret reçoit et met en mémoire les données de tir (azimut, réglage de la fusée et hausse) qui s'affichent à la demande sur l'indicateur à quatre chiffres qui se trouve dans le coin gauche supérieur du panneau.

Spanish

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Record 14 2001-03-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Small Arms
DEF

Type of shotgun stock, common to double barrel guns, for which English gun makers are famous. Designed to keep overall gun weight to the minimum, this style of stock is made with a very straight, slim hand grip.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Armes légères
DEF

Crosse à dessous droit, dans le prolongement de la poignée. C'est le type classique de la crosse à épauler tel qu'il a commencé à se fixer à partir de 1650 et a continué jusqu'à nos jours, sous des versions peu différentes, tant sur les armes de chasse que de guerre. Réputée donner une mise en joue plus rapide que les crosses «genre pistolet», la crosse anglaise reste préférée de nombreux chasseurs.

Spanish

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Record 15 2000-03-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Construction Tools
  • Waterproofing (Construction)
CONT

Caulking-Adhesive used to fill in small areas against water. Ie : Around windows in a long bead so water won’t leak in. Sold in tubes, and applied by pressure. Normally by hand with a "caulking gun".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outils (Construction)
  • Étanchéité (Construction)
CONT

calfeutrement. [...] Certains fabricants présentent leurs produits [...] en emballages destinés à être introduits dans des pistolets de mise en place par pression.

CONT

Pistolet : désigne divers outils portatifs dont la forme générale rappelle celle d'un pistolet. Les plus utilisés dans le bâtiment sont : le pistolet extrudeur, pour l'application en cordons des mastics d'étanchéité (dits mastics à la pompe), à partir de cartouches de mastic de format standardisé (310 ml). le pistolet à colle [...] le pistolet de scellement [...] le pistolet à peinture [...] le pistolet à riveter [...] le pistolet de sablage [...]

Spanish

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Record 16 1994-02-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Small Arms
Key term(s)
  • blue barrelled handgun
  • blue-barrelled hand gun
  • blue barrelled hand gun

French

Domaine(s)
  • Armes légères
OBS

Source(s) : Lexique Justice.

Spanish

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Record 17 1986-01-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Metallurgy - General
OBS

(centre lathe; tool, tool room; axle; crank, crank shaft; gun; hub; wheel and tyre; roll; brass, bronze, aluminum, etc.) capstan lathe, turret lathe operator finisher, fitter and turner(general hand; cock work)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Métallurgie générale
OBS

tourneur outilleur tourneur sur matrices

Spanish

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Record 18 1982-10-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Weapon Systems
  • Guns (Land Forces)
CONT

On the other hand, the Soviet 152 mm D-20 gun howitzer has been given a lethality index of 188, only one less than that of the US 155 mm SP howitzer.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Systèmes d'armes
  • Canons (Forces terrestres)
CONT

En revanche, l'obusier D-20 de 155 mm semble offrir un indice de létalité de 188, c'est-à-dire à peine inférieur à celui de l'obusier automoteur américain de même calibre.

Spanish

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