as in gun
a portable weapon from which a shot is discharged by gunpowder
will need a permit to carry a firearm
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Recent Examples of firearm
Lynch said police were made aware that the woman may have had access to firearms.
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Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Oct. 2025
Santos has also been charged with allowing a juvenile to have possession of a firearm.
—Kc Baker, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
Law enforcement officers conducted 37 drug seizures and recovered 32 firearms as part of the operation, the release says.
—Arkansas Online, 9 Oct. 2025
As the vehicles were stopped, the driver approached the off-duty officer and pulled out a firearm.
—Kelli Arseneau, jsonline.com, 9 Oct. 2025
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Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Oct. 2025
Santos has also been charged with allowing a juvenile to have possession of a firearm.
—Kc Baker, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
Law enforcement officers conducted 37 drug seizures and recovered 32 firearms as part of the operation, the release says.
—Arkansas Online, 9 Oct. 2025
As the vehicles were stopped, the driver approached the off-duty officer and pulled out a firearm.
—Kelli Arseneau, jsonline.com, 9 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for firearm
Recent Examples of Synonyms for firearm
gun
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The statistics don’t indicate what kind of criminal charge each agency has filed with the DOJ – meaning that referrals from arrests made by ATF agents working immigration raids or city patrols, rather than gun cases, could be included in the data, TRAC said.—
Allison Gordon,
CNN Money,
15 Oct. 2025
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At a news conference, police showed a video in which two people can be seen leaving a restaurant on Fountain Square Oct 13 and firing a gun at a restaurant, injuring two people.—
Matthew Cupelli,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
15 Oct. 2025
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“Firearm.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/firearm. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.
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