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Noun
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Along Foreman’s flight path, police found a revolver and a semi-automatic pistol, both of which were used to fire at the victims.—
Rick Sobey,
Boston Herald,
20 Aug. 2025 -
Hard work could never compete with a steam engine in pulling a train; decades of training in swordsmanship could never compete with a revolver.—
Radu Magdin,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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As the boys ran away down the street, the man raised the pistol again and fired at them, striking Guzman in the back.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
4 Sep. 2025
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Then almost a month later, on Wednesday, a search warrant was served at the residence, with officials recovering a stun gun, replica pistol, drugs and drug paraphernalia, the district attorney's office said.—
Megan Forrester,
ABC News,
4 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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But one night, the police were called after an argument escalated to the point of Staples trying to hurt herself with razors, even grabbing Kerr’s handgun.—
Rory Doherty,
Time,
5 Sep. 2025
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In exchange, prosecutors would agree to dismiss the rest of the case, including a murder charge, dealing in cocaine, unlawful carrying of a handgun and a misdemeanor.—
Meredith Colias-Pete,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Sep. 2025
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In a straw purchase, an individual buys a firearm for someone ineligible to purchase or possess guns.—
Mia Cathell,
The Washington Examiner,
4 Sep. 2025
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This particular finding presents a more nuanced framing of gun violence and challenges dominant narratives about Chicago’s violence that have plagued the city’s reputation for decades.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Sep. 2025
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There were four Elvises—two in fading black and white, two in lurid colour—all aiming a six-gun straight at her.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
30 Aug. 2023
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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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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“Roscoe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/roscoe. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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