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Ladd Russo and his shotgun: OTP! "Six men came to kill me one time, and the best of them carried this. It's a Callahan fullbore autolock, customized trigger and double cartridge thorough-gage. It's my very favorite gun. I call it Vera."
Some people just like weapons. A lot.
One way to show they have a favorite weapon is to give it an affectionate girly name. Expect them to act slightly too keen about the weapon, like knowing even its most obscure facts and statistics, with possibilities of stroking and licking. Frequently they speak to the weapon directly, often apparently expecting or thinking they hear a response. Expect them to be armed with it at a moment's notice, even if they were asleep a moment ago.
Anyone who does this either has a sentimental attachment to said weapon (pure or otherwise), is a veteran from some war, is generally insane (though you wouldn't say it to their face), or is some combination of the three. In any case, someone who gives a name to their gun or knife is usually someone to watch out for and generally not one to mess with.
In Real Life though, another reason could be that the owner is just very, very, lonely. Or, you know, a member of one of the several real world militaries that encourage this in trainees so they might actually bother to maintain the weapon.
Note that this only really applies to common weapons, especially guns. Empathic Weapons and Evil Weapons are a different issue, and vehicles like ships and planes nearly always have a name. Also, back when all weapons were handmade works of art, nearly all of them had names, so this trope is Older Than Dirt. Indeed, the word gun is derived from the name of a crossbow, Lady Gunilda. Therefore, every gun in existence is already named after a woman.
Related to this is I Call Him Mister Happy, where men name... another weapon of theirs. Seriously speaking, Companion Cube is what you get when you evoke this trope to the point where it might as well be an actual character, and Spaceship Girl is what you get when you invoke this trope literally.
Compare Named Weapons and Stock Weapon Names.
Examples:
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Anime and Manga
- Just about any Super Robot, technically. You can't very well yell out the name of your attack if it doesn't have a name, now can you?
- Maya from the various incarnations of Burn Up does this with her entire arsenal.
- Aya of Weiss Kreuz eventually reveals that his katana is named Shion, after his former teacher. Weiss being the sort of series that it is, Aya is eventually obliged to kill his weapon's namesake.
- Kino of Kinos Journey names her guns. "The Woodsman", "The Cannon", and "The Flute."
- The Wave Motion Gun magic wands from Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, such as Nanoha's Raising Heart and Fate's Bardiche. It's quite possible they named themselves.
- Bleach makes big use of this, but in reverse: the zanpakuto (or rather, the spirits within them) name themselves, and it's up to the soul reaper wielding it to learn the name of the zanpakuto he or she wields: the more they learn about the zanpakuto's name, the greater the power they gain from it, up to the bankai level, where the reaper knows the full name of their zanpakuto. Just about the only thing restraining Kenpachi from omnipotence is that he doesn't know his zanpakuto's name.
- Chang Wufei is particularly notable, in that he gave his Mobile Suit an additional, personal name after his dead fiancée besides its official one.
- Guts in Berserk has his sword, the Dragon Slayer. This wouldn't count except that there are no dragons in the Berserk universe (unless you count Grunbeld in Apostle form); the sword was merely designed so that it could slay one if there were. Recent chapters showed a dragon sitting on a castle tower, so the Dragon Slayer might eventually come to earn its name.
- In Slayers Try, Filia has a mace named "Mace-sama".
- The bat that can do anything, Excalibolg~
- In Dominion Tank Police, Leona names her Mini-tank Bonaparte.
- Hellsing has a particular obsession with naming weapons, to the point where the manga has dream sequences featuring some of them. Alucard's pistols are named Casull (which fires explosive tipped .454 Casull rounds) and Jackal (which fires 13mm blessed silver bullets with explosive mercury tips), Seras' "rifle" is called Harkonnen. Said "rifle" is a breech-loaded 30mm anti-tank weapon. The Harkonnen II is the upgraded version, which features *TWO* fully automatic, drum-fed 30mm anti-tank weapons. It should be noted that in aforementioned dream sequences, Seras' Harkonnen is represented by Baron Harkonnenn
- Casull is just it`s name in the signature series anime. In the manga and OVA it`s name is actually Joshua for who knows why.
- Genkaku from Deadman Wonderland calls his double machine gun electric guitar "Flying V" very affectionately. It receives better treatment than pretty much all other humans he interacts with.
- Another good anime example of this trope is found in Patlabor. In the Patlabor anime, Police Officer Noa Izumi affectionately names her giant police robot 'Alphonse' for some unspecified reason. Her fellow police officers are quite dismayed by her naming choice and her loving devotion to her mecha. It's what she's named all her childhood pets. Labor Alphonse is Alphonse III, with the first two being her cat and dog.
- In Kenichi The Mightiest Disciple, Kenichi's father has a shotgun he calls "Sebastian".
- Not to mention Hunting Rifle Maximilian and the Double-Barreled Rotwoski.
- It's only a ''metaphorical" axe, but Yui's dearly beloved instrument is "Gitah". Often written with a tilde to express the love. This affliction seems to be spreading to her bandmates.
- In the manga Double Arts, the resident Blood Knight Sui had a hoola hoop made of solid iron that she uses in battle. She calls it Avis.
Comicbooks
- Marv from Sin City has a .45 by the name of Gladys, which he named after one of the nuns from his school days. According to Marv, the gun has almost lived up to its name.
- Buck Godot calls his pistol "Junior". So do Smith and Wesson, a pair of entirely sentient AI zap guns belonging to a Space Pirate who goes by the name "the Pistol Packin' Polaris Packrat". It's probably the gun's actual name, although it isn't an AI and therefore doesn't talk (or if it is, it doesn't have much to say. Well, other than ZOWNT). A distinctly imposing rifle with "Senior" inscribed on its side is also shown to be in his possession, although if there's ever been a situation where Junior wasn't sufficient, we haven't seen it yet.
- The Dragunov sniper rifle of Natalya Zamyatin from Y: The Last Man is named Rodya, after her husband killed in the plague.
- Nuke, the drug-fueled Super Soldier from Daredevil, had a BFG he called "Betsy", which had a kill counter.
- In one of the Cable & Deadpool comics, Deadpool is in Rumekistan shooting people and his gun says "Deadpool's Gun" on it, with the little Deadpool emblem. So...well, he didn't really name it, but he did label it. (Also, in one of the issues Cable has a BFG named after Liefeld, as an in-joke on the way Liefeld used to draw ridiculously giant guns.)
- Captain America's shield seems to be named Shield in Steve's head. He loves that shield. He also once referred to it as "she", but when a rescued scientist asked about its name, Cap retorted, "Do you have a name for your right arm?" Naturally, the shield was lost at the end of the issue and later destroyed. It got better.
- In the Spacehack back-up strip that ran in Knights Of The Dinner Table, the security officer had a BFG he called "Suzy".
Film
- Gunnery Sergeant Hartmann from Full Metal Jacket, in one memorable scene, forces his recruits to give girls' names to their rifles.
- The first indication we get of Pvt. Pyle's decaying mental state is when we see him cleaning his gun delicately and whispering to it like a lover.
- In Aliens, Drake the smartgunner seems to have named his weapon "My Bitch". He kisses it at one point.
- Predator's 'Old Painless.'
- In John Carpenter's Vampires: Los Muertos, starring Jon Bon Jovi(!) the scary black guy calls his gun "Miss P".
- "Bruce? Matilda!"
- Since non-weapon examples have made it onto this page, we might as well mention Rosebud. What do you mean rosebud isn't a weapon?
- Hackers. Joey gives the name "Lucy" to his computer, which the character would consider a weapon.
- Hellboy's weapon of choice is a huge gun, which shoots bullets containing Holy water, Garlic or silver. He calls it The Good Samaritan. In Hellboy 2, Hellboy's new weapon is the 'Big Baby,' which is a large shotgun with six barrels. "Aww, you woke up the Baby!"
Literature
- In Dan Abnett's The Armour of Contempt, driller Kexie's best friend is Saroo, his shock maul aka cattleprod. Used to encourage discipline in the cadets. A lot.
- Norse Mythology. Try to find an important weapon that isn't named:
- Mjolnir, Thor's hammer.
- Odin's spear, Gungnir.
- Loki's sword of fire, Lævateinn.
- Heck, mythology in general. Just try and find a legendary hero whose every possession isn't a named Public Domain Artifact.
- Minor subversion in that very few people know the legend of the Shield of David. Supposedly it was a bronze shield with the symbol known as the Shield of David inscribed on it (aka: the Magen David or Star of David), and as long as David brought it he would never die in battle.
- Greek mythology didn't have any heroes with named weapons. Being badass demigods, they just used whatever weapon they could get their hands on in order to take on their adversaries. The only Cool Sword of the bunch was that adamant sword that Perseus used to lop off Medusa's head, and that didn't get a name. And the only named anything this troper can recall from Greek myth was the Aegis, the shield that Perseus used to get a good look at the Gorgon without getting turned to stone.
- The "sword" was in fact the sickle used by the Titan Kronus to castrate is father Ouranos (Uranus), and was later claimed by his son Zeus as his personal weapon. Even the personal weapon of the king of the gods didn't qualify for a name.
- What? King Arthur's Excaliber hasn't been mentioned? That's probably the most famous named weapon of all time!
- In The Three Musketeers, Porthos's favourite rapier is called "Balizarde", after the hero's sword in The Song of Roland. Which is strange, since Roland wielded Durendal and the word Balizarde never appears in the poem. Also, the name does not appear until the sequel Twenty Years After.
- Despite leaning heavily towards the Real Robot genre of science fiction, this is fairly common in the Battletech universe, especially the novels. This is probably inspired by the nicknaming of vehicles in the military during real world wars. In the novels focused on the Gray Death Legion, conspicuously Scottish Davis McCall has named his Rifleman 'Mech "Bannockburn"; Lori Kalmar-Carlyle's ancient but faithful Shadow Hawk goes by "Boss Lady". There's also the "Yen Lo Wan", a Centurion. Somewhat subverted in Endgame when Katrina Steiner snidely comments on her brother Victor Steiner-Davion having named his Dire Wolf/Daishi "Prometheus". (She then mocks a nearby guard who commented he named his gun Tabitha.) Weirdly, this seems slightly less common in the Clans, despite their using OmniMechs (a subtype of Humongous Mecha that are easily customized into unique variants) and have a culture that venerates warriors and honorable combat, but it can happen. Natasha Kerensky, the legendary Black Widow, calls her custom Daishi "Widowmaker".
- Jean Tannen, the lancer in The Lies of Locke Lamora, names his paired hatchets the Wicked Sisters. He makes a joke about the name when he has to fight a pair of female twins.
- Averted by Mercedes Lackey in her Heralds Of Valdemar series. Fighters operate under the philosophy that one weapon is as good as another; the only sword which has a name is an Empathic Weapon which turns out to be a woman's spirit contained in a sword. Several main characters give their musical instruments names, however. Somewhat subverted but mostly played straight in her Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms, where having a named weapon (Galgraling the Wyrm Slayer) will invoke Tradition (the ambient magic in the land) and give you an advantage should you meet an actual Wyrm.
- Played absolutely straight by Jennifer Robertson in her Sword series. Certain swords are magical and can be wielded only by those who know their secret names.
- A Justified Trope in Dragaera's Taltos series; Vlad calls his Great Weapon, Godslayer "Lady Teldra." The reason, in addition to the fact that he considers the actual name melodramatic, is that it contains the soul of its namesake.
- Red Orm by Frans G. Bengtsson features a pair of vikings who name their favorite swords "Bluetongue" and "Redbeak".
- A Song Of Ice And Fire uses this quite a bit, from a child's fencing blade (Needle) through to the ancestral swords of the noble houses (Dawn, Ice, Red Rain, etc.).
- Prince Joffrey is way too into it, giving his blades, which are effectively new and do nothing of importance, names, such as Hearteater or (ugh) Widow's Wail ("and many a widow it shall make", said the 14-year-old spoiled foppish cowardly sociopath who would probably get beaten up by the 10-year-old girl).
- In Peter Pan, Mr Smee has named his sword "Johnny Corkscrew", because of the way he uses it.
- In the Dave Barry/Ridley Pearson Peter Pan novel Peter and the Starcatchers, Captain Hook deployed a special sail rigging he named "The Ladies". This specific sail was modeled after a woman's bustier, and supposedly increased his ship's speed.
- The Lord Of The Rings, The Hobbit, and Middle-Earth in general are full of these. Let's see: Sting, Orcrist (aka by Orcs and Goblins as Biter), Glamdring (aka Beater), Narsil (The Sword of Elendil) which was reforged into Andúril (aka The Sword that was Broken), Túrin Turambar's Thunderbolt Iron sword Gurthang (née Anglachel), the other Thunderbolt Iron sword Anguirel, a battering ram named Grond, Hammer Of The Underworld, which is named after the hammer Morgoth (Sauron's mentor) used, Aiglos, the spear of Gil-galad... It gets worse because whenever Tolkien said anything in Elvish, he usually followed it with a translation immediately, so these weapons tend to get introduced as "Andúril, Flame of the West". Of course, inspired as it was by Norse mythology, this isn't a surprise.
- One of Tolkien's non-Middle-Earth stories, "Farmer Giles of Ham" (explicitly set in Old England), featured the sword Caudimorax. (Latin for "Tailbiter", the sword itself was skilled at slaying dragons.)
- In the Rhapsody series of books, Elizabeth Haydon has Grunthor—a giant military sergeant—name all of his weapons, because he says it makes them work better.
- In the famous Civil War memoir Company H, the author mentions a fellow soldier who "had the brightest gun in the army, and always called Florence Fleming".
- This has appeared in the Malazan Book Of The Fallen series, though it isn't very common("Grief", "Chance").
- Mona and Delilah are the cars owned by Joanna in the Weather Warden series by Rachel Caine.
- Reason in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash. Used as a source of wordplay: "I know they'll listen to Reason".
- This trope is out in force in the Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series by Tad Williams. Besides the titular swords themselves, just about every major character has a name for their favorite sword, spear, or miscellaneous implement of death.
- In Dungeons And Dragons most notable magic items are named, including weapons.
- Drizzt Do'Urden's two scimitars, Icingdeath and Twinkle. And Wulfgar's war hammer, Aegis-fang; Cattie-brie's bow, Taulmaril the Heartseeker; and her sword, Khazid'hea (translated from Drow, 'Cutter'; although as a sentient sword, being named is justified). Similarly, Artemis Entreri eventually acquires the sentient sword Charon's Claw. Though never named in the novels, game rule information gives names to the twin longswords of Zaknafein, Drizzt's father: one is called Reaper, the other Reaver. As they are borderline epic in their abilities, and he was epic level, they no doubt earned their name.
- Averted with Enteri's dagger, which is only known by the rubies on it. That is enough.
- Brandon Sanderson's Warbreaker also has a sentient sword called "Nightblood."
- In Heinlein's Tunnel in the Sky both the main protagonist and his sister have foot-long Bowie-knives that they've named. The sister's is "Lady Macbeth". The protagonist's knife is called Colonel Bowie, showing an unfortunate lack of creativity on his part. Glory Road has Lady Vivamus, explicitly introduced as being just like the next example.
- Subverted in Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser series. Fafhrd wields a sword he calls Greywand, while his partner, the Grey Mouser, wields a sword and a dagger he calls Scalpel and Cat's Claw. However, Fafhrd calls any sword he happens to be carrying Greywand, and whatever sword and dagger The Mouser wields become Scalpel and Cat's Claw. They go through many, many, many of these over the course of the stories.
- In Garth Nix's Old Kingdom series, Lirael's sword Nehima keeps changing its own inscription every time she looks at it.
- The Bazil Broketail series seems to take the military training route; humans don't name any of their weapons, but nearly every dragon soldier seems to have named their personal blade, whether or not it's enchanted.
- Elric. Stormbringer.
- The Heir series by Cinda Williams Chima has Warrior hero Jack uncover the legendary magical sword of his ancestor, which is named Shadowslayer. His girlfriend Ellen, also a Warrior, later acquires a similar one named Waymaker.
- Beowulf had his sword Hrunting.
- Mack Bolan's preferred handweapons are named "Big Thunder" (a stainless steel .44 AutoMag), and "Belle", his silenced Beretta Brigadier (a civilian Beretta 92S). The spin-off series Able Team has "Lyon's Crowd-Killing Device", a modified Atchisson Assault Shotgun wielded by 'Ironman' Carl Lyons.
- The Avenger, pulp hero, late 30s - early 40s: Ike (throwing knife) and Mike (revolver).
- Hoppy Uniatz uses his Betsy to bop people. And yes, he geniunely talks like that.
- In The Song of the Lioness Quartet, Alanna names her sword Lightning.
- For a brief while near the (publishing-order) beginning of the Redwall series, the Sword of Martin the Warrior was dubbed "Ratdeath". Apparently Brian Jacques realized that really isn't a good name, and thus it underwent Retcon. In later books, it has no real name, but "Sword" tends to be capitalized when you talk about it.
- In The River of Dancing Gods by Jack L. Chalker, the hero names his magic sword "Irving," after his estranged son.
Live Action TV
Music
Professional Wrestling
- Mick Foley calls his favourite baseball-bat-wrapped-in-barbed-wire "Barbie".
- Ron Bass carried a bullwhip that he called "Miss Betsy." He also had a pair of spurs with which he once attacked Brutus Beefcake, and which, on at least one occasion, he referred to as "Brett" and "Bart."
- T. L. Hopper, the wrestling plumber, carried a plunger named "Bessie."
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Tabletop Games
- In the Iron Kingdoms setting, Orsus "The Butcher of Khardov" Zoktavir calls his axe "Lola". As long as we're talking IK, there's also Ashlynn's Nemesis, Croe's Hiss, Gorten's Forge Father, Seige's Ground Pounder, Vlad's Skirmisher & Ruin, Magnus' Foecleaver, Bart's Red Tide & Ace, Fiona's Viper, and Brocker's Thrasher, and that only covers the some of the mercenaries and a few faction combatants. Naming your weapon is pretty common in the Iron Kingdoms.
- Mr. Welch, of (Increasingly Large Number) Things Mr. Welch Can No Longer Do In An RPG fame, is forbidden from this, even if suggested by the game, per rule number 1359.
- In the Iron Heroes setting, the Weaponmaster class is required to name his weapon at 11th level. Doing so causes his reputation to precede him.
Theatre
- In the musical Sweeney Todd, Mr. Todd doesn't ever mention names for his razors... but he does have an entire song, "My Friends," where he directly addresses them as his friends, and apparently expects them to answer him.
Videogames
Webcomics
Western Animation
- Thirty/Thirty (the robot/cyborg horse from Bravestarr) had a gun called Sarah Jane. He himself is named for a bullet.
- In Walt Disney's Robin Hood, one of the guards—tellingly named Trigger—has a powerful crossbow called Betsy.
- The Simpsons parodied Full Metal Jacket in the episode "Dead Putting Society" wherein Homer forces Bart to call his golf putter "Charlene". "Pull, Dutchess! PULL!!!"
- In Open Season, Shaw calls his shotgun "Lorraine". It even has its name engraved on it.
- Big-game hunter Mr. Marlin, a one-shot character from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003), called his custom laser rifle "Betsy". Eventually, it blew up, killing him.
- The unfortunately named Lugnutz of Transformers: Cybertron, according to his official bio, calls his rifle "Dutch".
- In Gargoyles, recurring character Vinnie Grigori's pie-cannon is named Mr. Carter, Mr. C for short.
- Avatar The Last Airbender example: Sokka's Boomerang. Space Sword might also count. Hey, nobody said Sokka was good at naming things...
- I think "Sparky-Sparky-BOOM Man" Agrees with that statement.
Web Original
- Non-weapon example: In Survival Of The Fittest, Cody Jenson names the motorcycle he finds "Loretta", and apparently falls in love with it as the game goes on.
- An NPC in Neoquest II, a game within the game of Neopets, has a sword named Vera. His cowboy-like speech patterns (which he shares with no other character in the game) and the fact that there are several self-proclaimed Browncoats on the Neopets staff suggest that this is a direct Shout Out.
- Marzipan's acoustic guitar, Carol.
- Chaz Villette in Shadow Unit has a sourdough starter named Elmer. Not anymore, he doesn't.
- A video by You Tuber Blunty3000 features a ninja who has named his sword "Suzette".
- From Red vs. Blue, we have the Blue Team's Tank named "Sheila"
- Happens in Protectors Of The Plot Continuum.
- Agent Foxglove has two daggers named Pointy and Stabby and a sabre named Choppy - she's aware it's not a chopping weapon, but in her words, "'Slicey' doesn't sound right and I think we can just forget about 'Slashy'."
- In the Official Fanfiction University of Redwall, one of the boys named his motorbike and was very unhappy when the vermin staff members stole and vandalised it. In the words of the heroine, "It takes a guy who's either very secure in his own masculinity or very bad at connecting brain to mouth to publicly admit he calls his motorbike 'Cynthia'."
- In Im A Marvel And Im ADC, Deadpool's guitar is called Lucille (a Shout Out to BB King). In its latest appearance, Rorschach shoots it.
Real Life
(Personal examples of naming things should be directed to troper tales.)
- The BM-13 Katyusha fires a Macross Missile Massacre, and yet the name "Katyusha" is the Russian equivalent of "Katie"; later models were luckier and were named BM-21 Grad ("hail"), BM-27 Uragan ("hurricane") and BM-30 Smerch ("tornado").
- Richard Hammond of Top Gear was mocked by his co-hosts when he referred to the car he was driving as "Oliver." (Oliver wound up becoming Hammond's Companion Cube.)
- According to legend, Davy Crockett named his gun Betsy, which is most likely brought this trope to public consciousness, and thus makes it Older Than Radio.
- Most Norse warriors of the Viking era had a tendency to name their weapons, in imitation of their Migration Era ancestral heroes (and of course, their myths, or perhaps their myths imitated their history), making this Older Than Feudalism. Examples crop up by the hundreds in the sagas, which are all part real history, part heroic legendry (the proportion varies from pure history to mostly fiction). Just one confirmably historical example would be Grasida ("Greyside"), which began as a sword, was broken and then reforged into a spear that went on to serve Gisli, son of Sur, for the rest of his life.
- The tradition didn't die with the Vikings, either. Medieval romances, in an exaggaration of real life, were full of named swords like Roland's Durandal and its sisters, Joyeuse (belonging to Charlemagne) and Courtain (AKA Cortana, wielded by Ogier the Dane). In fact, it seems people have kept up the practice, quite unbroken, right up until modern times (see the bit about Marines naming their guns); for example, one source from the 18th Century features a sword named Skiver the Pullet...
- The "Big Bertha" howitzers used by Germany during World War One.
- The British muskets of the Revolutionary War were called Brown Bess, although Bess is a corruption of buss (gun) as in blunderbuss.
- Another variant: It's not uncommon for players of Collectible Card Games to name their decks, particularly if it is a particular archetype. On the other hand, oblique or nonsense names allow you to refer to something and not give away too much about it to opponents who haven't seen it play yet.
- Naming electronics, computers in particular, seems to be a general geek thing. Of course, most modern OSes specifically support computer naming for good networking/management purposes, but many geeks take it further by using a personal naming scheme that's standard across all their stuff.
- Fred Gallagher of Megatokyo had a pattern of naming the succession of servers for the webcomic after girls from Kanon, and his laptops after Haibane Renmei. This is taken to an extreme end in a few of the omake, depicting the comic server as a female persocom just sitting in the colocation center, who gets kidnapped.
- Jeff Darlington provides a really good example.
- There's a 15th century cannon at Edinburgh Castle called Mons Meg. (Mons being where it was built, and Meg being short for Margaret.) The barrel is almost big enough to crawl into.
- Feudal Japan; The works of master swordsmiths were named for the smith, often with a name for the individual sword as well. The works of the legendary swordsmith Masamune include the Honjo Masamune, a symbol of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
- Warplanes were and are often painted with pet names and naked women, almost enough to cross into true Companion Cube territory. Although still somewhat prevalent, it began to die out during the Korean War when an Air Force general's wife became indignant.
- All incoming trainees are instructed to name all their weapons in the US Army's basic training. Although this may be meant to encourage total and generally unnecessarily complete knowledge of how these weapons work rather than because said knowledge exists to begin with.
- In NASCAR, race teams and drivers would give names to their multiple cars. Jeff Gordon, for example, gave his racecars names starting with the letter B, including Boomer, Backdraft, Boo, Beavis, and Butthead.
- "Figurative uses of animal names in Latin and their application to military devices; a study in semantics". Yes, it's a work about pet (or mount) names Roman guys gave to things like heavy catapults. This trend even made it to English (ram).
- As a matter of fact, the word "gun" is derived from an Old Norse woman's name, "Gunhilda" (which ironically means "battle-maiden"). Most old cannons would be named after a woman, and Gunhilda was the most popular name at the time. Or So I Have Heard.
- When they were first issued their FAMAS rifles, French troops during the 70's and 80's nicknamed it "Le Clarion" which translates as 'the bugle', due to its odd shape.
- William Fredrick "Buffalo Bill" Cody named his favorite rifle "Lucrezia Borgia".
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