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"Anyone with information on the laser cannon's location can notify their local police department or the FBI," NBC Dallas-Fort Worth reports.

WATCH: Powerful Laser Cannon Goes Missing The Huffington Post 2011

He was appalled that Virginians would celebrate the outbreak of violence in South Carolina when it involved his former comrade, Major Robert Anderson, who was defending "a handful of starving men" and had been compelled, "at the cannon's mouth, to lower the flag of his country."

Great drama at Virginia secession convention 2011

The cannon's blast knocked a rebel fighter standing too close off his feet and ripped open a fatal 12-inch long gash in his inner thigh.

Rebel Gains Fail to End Siege of Libyan City Charles Levinson 2011

But, rather than become despondent, Birkeland used the lessons learned from the cannon's faults to create another invention from similar technologyan electromagnetic furnace.

A Conversation with Lucy Jago, author of The Northern Lights 2010

Duty was Elspeth's watch-word, especially when it was my duty - hadn't she shot me off to India more than once, weeping, I grant you (though what she'd been up to with those grinning Frogs after Madagascar, once I'd been despatched to the cannon's mouth, I didn't care to imagine).

Watershed 2010

Owen would have made a fairish corporal, given no work more taxing than lifting heavy weights and advancing into the cannon's mouth, but Junior had always been slightly wanting, Jerry told me, and the Kansas fighting had sent him off the rails altogether.

THE NUMBERS 2010

Coming after the soldier -- "sudden and quick in quarrel, seeking the bubble reputation even in the cannon's mouth" - is the fifth, a calmer, more judicious stage of life.

Ken Adelman: Bard Blog : The Supreme Court Nomination 2010

To mix some overheated metaphors, we were standing on a barrel of gunpowder, playing with fire, and marching up the cannon's mouth.

Richard Bangs: Climbing the Killer Prince -- Merapi Volcano of Java, Part 1 Richard Bangs 2010

To mix some overheated metaphors, we were standing on a barrel of gunpowder, playing with fire, and marching up the cannon's mouth.

Richard Bangs: Climbing the Killer Prince -- Merapi Volcano of Java, Part 1 Richard Bangs 2010

The sound of tires screeching are louder than a cannon's roar.

The Combat Experience: The Child and the Video Tape and the Horror. 2009