The Army said the World War I gun was the largest surviving of all the UK's artillery pieces and one of only 12 surviving in the world.
Like many culture-war issues, attitudes about gun control pretty much evenly divide the electorate.
Ms Gun revealed she was strongly anti-war but said she had not been looking for a piece of information to leak and embarrass the government.
His road to hating war, and ours to hating gun violence, goes through love and reason.
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Watson climbed down to Wreck Beach, where there were two abandoned gun towers, built during the Second World War to protect Canada from a Pacific invasion.
" David Bomberg, a brilliant graduate of London's Slade School, who was painting admirably adventurous pictures of his own, remembered decades later that "the tense figure operating the Drill as if it were a Machine Gun" amounted to "a Prophetic Symbol of the impending war.
But British MPs who backed the war reluctantly are now asking ever more loudly why no smoking gun has been found.
What I hope you will see is that what follows from this invite from Einstein to Freud about war can indeed be useful to us today in talking about gun violence.
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Among the most sought after are a collection of early revolutionary war muskets produced by the Committee of Safety, a group of American gun makers who copied British muskets and supplied them to militia units fighting for the colonies.
Projects to mark the centenary of the outbreak if war in 1914 will include exhibitions, drama performances and school visits to the Heugh Gun Battery.
California Democrat Barbara Boxer cited statistics showing that many more Americans died in gun violence in an 11-year period than died in the 11 years of the Vietnam War --- 395, 000 versus 58, 000.
There they found his father's old World War II rifle, a common memento here, and charged him with possession of an unlicensed gun as well as financial fraud.
But the worry now is that Mrs Gun's example will embolden others in the intelligence and security services to come forward with embarrassing revelations about the war.
Left and right rarely meet in combat, preferring to fight their war by proxy: only 5% of their victims, it is reckoned, actually die with a gun in their hands.
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