He glanced down at the place where his gun was trying and failing to hide.

To his good fortune, both the gun and a backup pistol failed to fire.

What the gun had failed to do, the car was accomplishing.

They held a man down and attempted to shoot him, but the gun failed to go off.

It was an easy opportunity, but when I swung on him and pulled the trigger, the gun failed to fire.

A misfire, when the gun fails to go off, is counted as a miss.

The man apparently pulled the trigger, but the gun failed to discharge, he said.

When the gun failed to discharge, he left the room and, seconds later, the seminar members heard the sound of a shot.

But, when the order to fire was given, the gun failed to respond.

Where your guns and long knife fail, this save you.