Sentence examples for floating gun from inspiring English sources

They should be literally nothing but floating gun carriages," with crews of 40 and no accommodations.

The Dreadnought battleship was an armour plated and floating gun platform.

With the English blockade the same year, he insisted that a mobile floating gun platform be built the world's first steam warship to protect New York Harbor against the British fleet.

You're a floating gun 99percentt of the time.

The damage persuaded the naval command to repair the ship for use only as a floating gun battery.

While he had hoped to quarter some troops even further south at Burlington, where there was strong Loyalist support, floating gun batteries from the Pennsylvania Navy threatened the town, and Donop, rather than expose Loyalist allies to their fire, was forced to scatter his troops throughout the surrounding countryside.

She sank in the shallow water from progressive flooding, but was raised and used as a floating artillery battery for the rest of the war using two, and later, three of her gun turrets.

The U.S. has the one of developed world's worst statistics for mass murders and gun deaths because we have so many powerful guns floating around and gun laws that allow murderers easy access to them.

Cerberus plans to float the gun maker Freedom Group soon.

And a senior Republican senator who opposes the president's efforts, Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, is now floating a competing gun bill.

Even as we try to improve gun control and its enforcement, we rarely engage with the fact that there are now and will for some time be a ton of guns floating around and into illegal hands—and that many legal gun owners are still prone to impulsive violence their firearms can abet.