Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for handguns
Noun
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Investigators found 16 guns including two pistols believed to have been used by a man who fatally shot his wife and their two children, then turned the gun on himself, in a murder-suicide inside the family’s Rancho Cordova home.—
Rosalio Ahumada,
Sacbee.com,
29 Jan. 2026 -
Presumably that meant plastic pistols were nonstarters.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Changes announced by Senate President Bobby Joe Champion, DFL-Minneapolis, also include a ban on members of the public carrying firearms in the Senate Gallery.—
Alex Derosier,
Twin Cities,
26 Jan. 2026
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Policing experts said that when officers are trying to arrest people found to have firearms, they are taught to alert their fellow officers and then draw their own guns and order the people to drop theirs or to try to disarm them.—
Jon Schuppe,
NBC news,
26 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The following month, a warrant led to the seizure of guns, ammunition, cash, machinery, counterfeit drugs and raw materials.—
Bonny Chu,
FOXNews.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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Investigators found 16 guns including two pistols believed to have been used by a man who fatally shot his wife and their two children, then turned the gun on himself, in a murder-suicide inside the family’s Rancho Cordova home.—
Rosalio Ahumada,
Sacbee.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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“Handguns.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/handguns. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.
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