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The '''Lord President's personal security sidearm''' was an energy pistol that acted as the sidearm for the personal security [[Lord President]] of [[Gallifrey]].

The weapon had the appearance of a double-barreled pistol. It fired energy bursts that had an immediate effect on its target.

According to [[The General]], due its status as the sidearm of the Lord President's personal guard, it possessed no stun setting and would be fatal to anything shot with it, even [[Time Lord]]s. A single shot to the chest of a Time Lord with the pistol would force an immediate [[regeneration]] in that Time Lord. The gun was presumably fatal for any Time Lord that had reached the end of their regeneration cycle as the [[Twelfth Doctor]] took the precaution of asking which regeneration the Time Lord he shot with the gun was on beforehand. ([[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'')

During the [[Coup against Rassilon]], [[the General]] was armed with one of these guns, though he kept it holstered for most of the coup. Finally, when the General sided with the [[Twelfth Doctor]], he symbolically dropped the gun to the ground before moving to the Doctor's side.

Though Clara asked the Doctor to put the gun down, he asked the General which [[regeneration]] he was on. The General realised what the Doctor intended and told the Doctor that he was on his tenth regeneration and had thus not reached the end of his regeneration cycle. After the Doctor and the General wished each other luck, the Doctor shot the General in the chest, causing the General to collapse to the ground. By the time [[Gastron]] arrived in the extraction chamber moments after the Doctor's departure, the General had already begun a regeneration into a female incarnation because of the shot. The Doctor soon discarded the weapon at Clara's insistence. ([[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'')

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