[rabidralph]

A friend of mine says a pistol is what you use until you can get to your rifle :-)

[SargeK]

And a rifle is what you use to support the machine gunner, who is defending the battery...

Think big.

"Artillery lends dignity to what otherwise would be a vulgar brawl." (attributed to) Frederick the Great.

'Course old Fred hadn't imagined strategic bombers yet...