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Remington, the country’s oldest gun maker, began making flintlock rifles in 1816.
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From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 13 Nov. 2021
Remington, the country's oldest gun maker, began making flintlock rifles in 1816.
—Jeff Amy, ajc, 8 Nov. 2021
Remington, the country's oldest gun maker, began making flintlock rifles in 1816.
—CBS News, 8 Nov. 2021
To date, the legal debate over the Second Amendment has largely assumed that gun technology unfolds over time according to a single, linear logic, from the colonial flintlock musket to the modern AR-15.
—Jennifer Tucker, CNN, 20 Oct. 2021
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From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 13 Nov. 2021
Remington, the country's oldest gun maker, began making flintlock rifles in 1816.
—Jeff Amy, ajc, 8 Nov. 2021
Remington, the country's oldest gun maker, began making flintlock rifles in 1816.
—CBS News, 8 Nov. 2021
To date, the legal debate over the Second Amendment has largely assumed that gun technology unfolds over time according to a single, linear logic, from the colonial flintlock musket to the modern AR-15.
—Jennifer Tucker, CNN, 20 Oct. 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for flintlock
Noun
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Musk is able to launch these bundles of satellites at a Gatling-gun pace, while his competitors operate at musket speed with rockets that must be rebuilt from scratch each time.—
Ross Andersen,
The Atlantic,
6 May 2025
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Later, Flinders interacted with the First Nations people again, this time giving them his shot belt that included musket balls, according to the release.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
14 May 2025
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Beretta traces its history to 1526, when Bartolomeo Beretta (d. 1565), a rifle barrel maker in the small northern Italian town of Gardone, sold 185 arquebus barrels—a handheld long gun and a forerunner to the modern rifle—to the Republic of Venice.—
Giacomo Tognini,
Forbes,
25 Mar. 2025
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The worshipers insisted on congregating to pray at the crucifix in the local church and threatened to shoot with an arquebus – a long gun used during the Renaissance period – anyone who got in their way.—
Hannah Marcus,
The Conversation,
25 Sep. 2020
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First-generation matchlock rifles, tanks, and aircraft had major limitations but improved over time.—
Paul Scharre,
Foreign Affairs,
15 Feb. 2018
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Guns are a part of American life, and have been since the very beginning, from the matchlock muskets arming the earliest colonies to the Colt revolvers and Winchester rifles of the Old West to the Glock handgun of today.—
Kyle Mizokami,
Popular Mechanics,
7 Mar. 2018
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Short-barrel firearms include rifles with barrels shorter than 16 inches and shotguns with barrels less than 18 inches, according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).—
Andrew Stanton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 May 2025
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That allows the driver and passenger riding shotgun to hear the rear of the car clearly, according to The Drive.—
Erik Shilling,
Robb Report,
28 May 2025
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What the Supreme Court should not do is hand down a blunderbuss of a legal rule — one that could very well throw every public school in the country into turmoil — based on a half-baked legal theory constructed by lawyers who don’t even know if their clients’ rights were violated yet.—
Ian Millhiser,
Vox,
15 Apr. 2025
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Now comes President Donald Trump with his blunderbuss actions that weaken or threaten to weaken the press across the board, perplexing us all who are paying attention.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
23 Mar. 2025
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Scott, formerly of Hartford, was convicted of kidnapping resulting in Velez’s death and with causing the death of Velez through the use of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.—
Staff report,
Hartford Courant,
29 May 2025
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The bill has come under scrutiny, as a similar type of firearm was used in a 2018 school shooting in Santa Fe, Texas.—
Andrew Stanton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 May 2025
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Williams was charged with murder, first degree manslaughter, criminal possession of a firearm, criminal possession of ammunition, and carrying a pistol without a permit.—
Edmund H. Mahony,
Hartford Courant,
6 June 2025
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As the argument intensified in the parking lot, the manager’s brother pulled out a pistol and shot the worker several times in the arm and chest, authorities said.—
Mike Stunson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
4 June 2025
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“Flintlock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flintlock. Accessed 12 Jun. 2025.
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