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“What kinda gun has such a big rifle barrel?” Jeff did indeed ask numerous questions as his father had implied, but as he listened to the answers and appeared to be absorbing them, Miranda found no dissatisfaction in the process.
She glanced at the barrel and other remains of the gun still attached to it. “It’s from a 40 millimeter L/60 Bofors autocannon.” That finally told her what variation of C-130 Hercules plane it was. An AC-130 gunship.
“Autocannon? That’s like an automatic cannon?”
“Yes.”
“It automatically shoots cannonballs? Like a pirate ship?” His streams of questions were curiously logical from a certain point of view—a person filled with infinite curiosity and only limited experience. Once she’d realized that, she’d discovered an ongoing interest in what he’d ask next.
