When one of the guards stuck his head inside the car, he found himself staring down the oiled iron barrel of a submachine gun.
Converted rifles retained the original iron barrel, furniture, locks and cap-style hammers.
The rifles were converted in large numbers, or assembled new with surplus pattern 53 iron barrels and hardware.
It was a tiny artillery piece, the iron barrel a dull, unreflecting black, the wheels and limber of ancient polished wood.
Hugh the Hand made his way to a fire that was burning inside an iron barrel.
Most all rifles were made with iron barrels, while only some, like the Burnside used the then-expensive steel instead.
Lead was more expensive than iron, but it was softer and less damaging to the relatively weak iron barrels of early muskets.
An apparatus of Kwalish appears to be a large, sealed iron barrel, but it has a secret catch that opens a hatch in one end.
It was bigger than Theo had imagined from the Monkey's offhanded description, with a black iron barrel and heavy breech.
Such weapons were intended to be used at short range and did not take a large enough charge to require iron barrels.