Possible Clues:

• Large gun that fires heavy shells
• Sounds as if one goes into church only to go off
• One of the big guns making a name in the law
• Act of deception in which girl's got shot at table
• One may fire a churchman after a hearing
• Another theologian accepts point in a weapon
• Go off to church, by the sound of it
• Does one keep her on after a century, or does one get fired?
• Weapon firing large balls
• Rule about new ordnance