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Warhammer 40K Bolter

A Bolter or "Boltgun," is a powerful antipersonnel weapon that fires miniaturized armor-piercing rockets (called "bolts") that have a delayed impact fuse. What this means, in layman's terms, is that the projectiles it fires are designed to punch through armor and then explode, causing considerable, if not immediately fatal damage to whatever the thing hits, since whoever's hit is usually blown apart. The rocket-propelled projectiles the gun fires are quite large (.75 Caliber, or 19.05mm to use another metric), making the weapon quite effective against most forms of infantry and capable of causing damage to most light vehicles as well; basic Marines firing on a vehicle from behind and disabling or even destroying it with glancing hits is not unheard of. They are capable of semi-automatic or automatic fire, and most can also fire in 2- or 4-round bursts.