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Goetz, who had been assaulted three years earlier and then denied a gun permit, illegally carried a revolver.—
Michael Bobelian,
Washington Post,
18 Feb. 2026 -
According to details on Walmart’s website, the water-resistant holster is designed to hold a revolver with a barrel measuring 4 to 6½ inches.—
Michael Ruiz , Amanda Macias,
FOXNews.com,
14 Feb. 2026
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According to federal authorities, Morales Tejada in October 2023 was convicted in Superior Court in Connecticut on charges of carrying a pistol without a permit and first-degree failure to appear.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
13 Feb. 2026
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Smith’s waders started to fill with water, and the pistol strapped to his chest felt like a weight pulling him under.—
Emilee Coblentz,
Outside,
11 Feb. 2026
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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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Officers recovered a Glock 9 mm handgun with extended magazines and about 96 spent shell casings from the bedroom, according to the release.—
Claire Osborn,
Austin American Statesman,
18 Feb. 2026
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Cobb County police have shot and killed a man reportedly armed with a handgun on Monday night, officials say.—
Dan Raby,
CBS News,
17 Feb. 2026
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Kennedy, who is not a student at the university, was out on bond after a September arrest for having a gun on campus, according to court records.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
19 Feb. 2026
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Shooter entered arena with two guns According to police, the shooter was a licensed gun owner and had a permit to carry out of Florida.—
N'dea Yancey-Bragg,
USA Today,
18 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The search turned up additional drugs, drug paraphernalia, and a zip gun.—
cleveland,
cleveland,
27 Jan. 2022
Noun
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The looks in KPop Demon Hunters were immediately iconic, and there is no doubt that Halloween will be dominated by gilded shoulder pads and wide-brimmed black gat, or the traditional Korean hat worn by the demon boy band.—
Ali Wunderman,
Vogue,
24 Sep. 2025
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Also, demons—more specifically, the gat-wearing, hanbok-donning jeoseung saja, a kind of grim reaper tasked with guiding the dead to the afterlife in Korean mythology.—
Kayti Burt,
Time,
21 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The handgun, which was introduced in 1935 after Prohibition, is a six-shooter revolver that fires rounds at a high velocity.—
Thao Nguyen,
USA Today,
28 Nov. 2025
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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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“Roscoe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/roscoe. Accessed 22 Feb. 2026.
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