Machine Gun - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: machine gunGatling gun
An American machine gun consisting of a cluster of barrels which being revolved by a crank are automatically loaded and fired...
machine gun
A fully automatic rapid firing rifle which continues to fire bullets repeatedly as long as the trigger is depressed lighter versions may be carried in the hands and heavier versions may be mounted on a tripod vehicle or other mount The lighweight versions are sometimes called a submachine gun...
Maxim gun
A kind of machine gun named after its inventor Hiram S Maxim...
machine gunner
A soldier who operates a machine gun...
Breech action
The breech mechanism in breech loading small arms and certain special guns as automatic and machine guns used frequently in referring to the method by which the movable barrels of breech loading shotguns are locked unlocked or rotated to loading position...
Gun
Gun. The Gun Licence Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 57), in which 'gun' includes a firearm of any descrip-tion and an air-gun or any other kind of gun from which any shot, bullet or other missile can be discharged,' grants to the Crown 'for every licence to be taken out yearly by every person who shall use or carry a gun in the United Kingdom the sum of 10s.' By s. 6 of the Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1883, licences expire on July 31st after date. Licences are registered by the inland revenue officers who grant them, and must be produced to such officers on demand. For using a gun without licence except in a dwelling-house, the fine is 10l., but there are six exemptions, being of (1) persons in the naval, military, or volunteer service in discharge of their duty; (2) licensees to kill game; (3) persons carrying such licensee's gun, by his order and for his use, and giving his name and address as well as his own on request of inland revenue officer or constable, or owner or occupier of...
grease gun
A device held in the hand having a supply of grease and attached to a reservoir of pressurized air used to force grease between adjacent moving parts of a machine especially in the bearings of motor vehicles...
machine pistol
A fully automatic pistol a small submachine gun...
VerbarMitrailleuse
A breech loading machine gun consisting of a number of barrels fitted together so arranged that the barrels can be fired simultaneously or successively and rapidly...
Machine
Machine, A device or apparatus consisting of, fined and moving parts that work together to perform some function, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 961.Machine, includes prime movers, transmission machinery and all other appliances whereby power is generated, transferred, transmitted or applied to a dangerous machine. [Dangerous Machines (Regulation) Act, 1983 (35 of 1983), s. 3 (i)]Machine, the meaning of the word 'machine' according to the dictionary in a popular and mechanical sense is '....... more or less complex combination of mechanical parts, as levers, gears, sprocket wheels, pulleys, shafts and spindles, ropes, chains, and bands, cams and other turning and sliding pieces, springs, confined fluids etc. together with the frame work and fastenings, supporting and connecting them, as when it is designed to operate upon material to change it in some pre-conceived and definite manner, Sales Tax Commissioner v. Ladha Mal, AIR 1971 SC 2221 (2222): (1971) 2 SCC 407....
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