This particular gun didn’t have a barrel or fire bullets, instead the word is an alteration of the word ganef or gonif, a Yiddish word meaning “thief.”

这类特别的枪并没有枪管或是子弹。 相反，这个词是ganef或gonif的替代用法——一个意为“盗贼”（thief）的 意第绪语 （Yiddish）单词。

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As the ambush intensified, Sgt Meyer defied his commanding officers' orders to jump into an armoured Humvee with a fellow Marine and brave an inferno of machine-gun fire, bullets, grenades and mortars.

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We are expressly not speaking here of automatic military weapons which rapid-fire lots of bullets with a single trigger pull.

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These automatic weapons which fire lots of bullets with a single trigger pull are illegal for any civilians to own unless they have acquired a very special Class III permit.

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