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  2. Impact wrench - Wikipedia

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    A 1/2" drive pistol-grip air impact wrench. An impact wrench (also known as an impactor, impact gun, air wrench, air gun, rattle gun, torque gun, windy gun) is a socket wrench power tool designed to deliver high torque output with minimal exertion by the user, by storing energy in a rotating mass, then delivering it suddenly to the output shaft.

  3. Impact driver - Wikipedia

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    Impact driver. A manual impact driver (for use with hammer) with screwdriver bits and adapters. An impact driver is a tool that delivers a strong, sudden rotational force and forward thrust. The force can be delivered either by striking with a hammer in the case of manual impact drivers, or mechanically in the case of powered impact drivers.

  4. Light-gas gun - Wikipedia

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    The light-gas gun is an apparatus for physics experiments. It is a highly specialized gun designed to generate extremely high velocities. It is usually used to study high-speed impact phenomena (hypervelocity research), such as the formation of impact craters by meteorites or the erosion of materials by micrometeoroids.

  5. List of most-produced firearms - Wikipedia

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    This page lists more than 100 small arms designs which have been produced in numbers exceeding one million since the late 18th century. Many more types have been made in the hundreds of thousands. Many of the firearms on this list are military weapons which were used during both World Wars, so it is unsurprising that they were manufactured in such high numbers. Others are designed for civilian ...

  6. Motor City Machine Guns - Wikipedia

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    Motor City Machine Guns. The Motor City Machine Guns[a] are an American professional wrestling tag team consisting of Alex Shelley and Chris Sabin. They are currently signed to WWE, and are best known for their time with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA)/ Impact Wrestling. The team name, which has been variably Motor and Murder City, is a ...

  7. Riot gun - Wikipedia

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    A less lethal projectile gun, an example of which is the FN 303, is essentially a paintball marker, either purpose built for riot control, or modified from a commercial paintball marker. The pepper ball guns use special pepper spray ammunition based on paintball technology, consisting of a gelatin capsule filled with the riot control agent. The ...

  8. Powder-actuated tool - Wikipedia

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    A powder-actuated tool (PAT, often generically called a Hilti gun or a Ramset gun after their manufacturing companies) is a type of nail gun used in construction and manufacturing to join materials to hard substrates such as steel and concrete. Known as direct fastening or explosive fastening, this technology is powered by a controlled ...

  9. Physics of firearms - Wikipedia

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    Physics of firearms. From the viewpoint of physics (dynamics, to be exact), a firearm, as for most weapons, is a system for delivering maximum destructive energy to the target with minimum delivery of energy on the shooter. [citation needed] The momentum delivered to the target, however, cannot be any more than that (due to recoil) on the shooter.