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Recent Examples of handgun
The detective said Carter’s friend spotted the handle of a handgun between the driver’s right leg and the vehicle’s center console.
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Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Following an argument with the pair, Hill pulled out a handgun and racked it while threatening to shoot the victims, prosecutors said.
—Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2025
Compared with children who played a game that was nonviolent, children who played a video game that included violence with guns or swords were more likely to touch a real, disabled handgun, handle a handgun longer and pull the trigger more times—including at themselves or their partner.
—Nick Mordowanec, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
The cost of a quality handgun starts around $400 and can easily exceed $1,000.
—Jim Turner, Miami Herald, 8 Sep. 2025
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Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Following an argument with the pair, Hill pulled out a handgun and racked it while threatening to shoot the victims, prosecutors said.
—Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2025
Compared with children who played a game that was nonviolent, children who played a video game that included violence with guns or swords were more likely to touch a real, disabled handgun, handle a handgun longer and pull the trigger more times—including at themselves or their partner.
—Nick Mordowanec, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
The cost of a quality handgun starts around $400 and can easily exceed $1,000.
—Jim Turner, Miami Herald, 8 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for handgun
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Federal agents executed a search warrant at her home in Virginia and found three 9mm pistols, including one inside a purse that also contained Perkins’ photo identification.—
KC Baker,
People.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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My thoughts, instead of feeling like they were being released via machine gun, felt like they were launched from an old-timey pistol shot underwater, the propulsion forcibly slowed.—
P.E. Moskowitz
September 11,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
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Speaking on Fox & Friends, Patel said forensic teams identified Robinson's DNA on both a screwdriver and a towel wrapped around the firearm believed to have been used in the fatal shooting.—
Amanda Castro
Hannah Parry
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Sep. 2025
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One reason is that the availability of increasingly lethal firearms continues to grow dramatically.—
John J. Donohue,
Time,
15 Sep. 2025
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Federal partners including the FBI and NCIS will assist with digital forensics and evidence collection; prosecutors will decide whether any third parties, including caregivers, could face charges related to firearm access as the ownership and access to the revolver remain under investigation.—
James Bickerton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Sep. 2025
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The sheriff's office said the suspect was armed with a revolver handgun.—
Alex Stone,
ABC News,
11 Sep. 2025
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But unlike in past deadly episodes of gun violence, the leaders were silent on calling for any gun control measures.—
Ross O'Keefe,
The Washington Examiner,
11 Sep. 2025
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A student who authorities say opened fire at his Colorado high school, wounding two classmates and then turning the gun on himself, has died, according to the local sheriff's office.—
Alex Stone,
ABC News,
11 Sep. 2025
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One hundred and fifty-nine years ago, a 26-year-old white supremacist and Confederate sympathizer named John Wilkes Booth pointed a .44 caliber derringer pistol at the back of Abraham Lincoln’s head and squeezed the trigger.—
Brian Matthew Jordan,
National Review,
14 Apr. 2024
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In 1976, after wrecking his Rolls-Royce in a drunk-driving accident, he was arrested, intoxicated, with a loaded derringer on the grounds of Elvis Presley’s Graceland estate.—
Chris Morris,
Variety,
28 Oct. 2022
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Its big selling feature is a revolver-like cylinder that spins and snicks along on precision bearings, just like the cylinder of a six-shooter.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
11 June 2025
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Richard’s odds are lousier than Reacher’s were when Beck forced Reacher to play because this revolver is a five-shot model instead of a six-shooter.—
Chris Klimek,
Vulture,
13 Mar. 2025
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Herbert ran to his right on the Kansas City 23-yard line and slung a sidearm pass to Johnston for his second touchdown of the game.—
Scott Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
6 Sep. 2025
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Ziva, though, heard gunshot, immediately grabbed for her sidearm and started frantically aiming for an assailant who wasn’t there.—
Matt Webb Mitovich,
TVLine,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Handgun.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/handgun. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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