a handheld ray gun n.
This was accomplished by means of an ancient weapon—the obsolete ray-pistol, you know—and this same weapon later enabled me to get control of the entire vessel.
He fondly patted the ray pistol where it lay hidden in his pocket.
He drew his ray pistol, and adjusted it carefully… The trigger gave him control over power.
Damn it, he was hauling out one of those vicious ray pistols he'd been dodging. Wonder if he'd hit him before the prince could ray him?
Jeff rocked back on his heels, stunned as effectively as if someone had batted him over the head with the butt of a ray pistol.
He pulled the lethal toy, the small ray pistol which never left him.
Scott (Carleton Young) and his ray pistol mean sure disintegration for Buck Rogers if Buster loses this fight.
antedating 1929
Harl Vincent, "War of the Planets", in Amazing
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