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a type of long gun that was used by soldiers before the invention of the rifle
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Recent Examples of musket
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.
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Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 6 May 2025
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
Seriously, watch this, there's cannons blasting, musket fire and smoke everywhere!
—Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2025
The gear is museum-worthy – muskets longer than men are tall, coats ranging from rich brocade to dun homespun.
—Melanie Stetson Freeman, Christian Science Monitor, 17 Apr. 2025
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Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 6 May 2025
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
Seriously, watch this, there's cannons blasting, musket fire and smoke everywhere!
—Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2025
The gear is museum-worthy – muskets longer than men are tall, coats ranging from rich brocade to dun homespun.
—Melanie Stetson Freeman, Christian Science Monitor, 17 Apr. 2025
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The flintlock pistol that Torres is given by the Yautja to fight his fellow prisoners is known by Predator fans as the Raphael Adolini 1715 pistol for an engraved plate that says just that.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
13 June 2025
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Although a gunshot from a flintlock pistol lasts only an eye blink, the sound is composed of numerous elements: the squeeze of the trigger, the strike of the firing mechanism against the flint, the ignition of the powder, the slug’s passage through the barrel, the report, the impact.—
Alexis Soloski,
New York Times,
3 Jan. 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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Wess Roley owned a shotgun and a long rifle, his grandfather said.—
Yahya Abou-Ghazala,
CNN Money,
30 June 2025
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On Monday, Norris said that a shotgun was found at the scene, but did not describe a second weapon.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
30 June 2025
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And with the Trump administration taking a blunderbuss to anything that remotely resembles DEI, the mood across the entertainment industries is generally apprehensive.—
Zak Cheney-Rice,
Vulture,
2 June 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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Growing up around firearms The source familiar with the investigation, however, said that authorities learned Roley grew up with a family that had firearms and felt comfortable handling them.—
Mike Levine,
ABC News,
1 July 2025
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During his initial court appearance on Sunday, Leto, who had a valid firearm owner’s identification card and concealed carry license, was ordered held pending trial.—
Sam Charles,
Chicago Tribune,
30 June 2025
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In the car, officers found a safe, all of the children's passports as well as Jenny Boelter's, about $10,000 in cash, a revolver pistol in the glove box and another semi-automatic pistol in a cooler, the FBI said in the complaint.—
N'dea Yancey-Bragg,
USA Today,
27 June 2025
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He was then stopped again by police in his hometown of Murfreesboro, where police took another pistol off him.—
Sophie Clark,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 June 2025
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“Musket.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/musket. Accessed 14 Jul. 2025.
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