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Noun
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He's seen running through the store and into the parking lot, stabbing a final victim in the crosswalk before being subdued by bystanders, including a man with a licensed pistol.—
John Wisely,
Freep.com,
19 Aug. 2025 -
One suspect was armed with an AR-15-style pistol while the other was armed with a handgun, according to police.—
Thao Nguyen,
USA Today,
14 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Federal law has long prevented people under 21 from buying handguns.—
Jim Saunders,
The Orlando Sentinel,
21 Aug. 2025
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Behind the door, police found a Glock 26 handgun with an extended magazine, two drum magazines and an ammunition box lying on the floor, as well as a loaded SCCY CPX-2 handgun on top of a dresser.—
Noe Padilla,
IndyStar,
21 Aug. 2025
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Detectives recovered 827 rounds for a stainless steel .357 magnum Colt Python revolver.—
John Miller,
CNN Money,
3 Aug. 2025
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Beginning in 1976, Berkowitz used a .44-caliber revolver to hold the entire city in a grip of fear, often targeting young women and couples.—
Alex Gurley,
People.com,
31 July 2025
Noun
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When everything was ready, Paul shoved his rifle into the saddle boot and climbed onto Flikka.—
Fred C. Mercer,
Outdoor Life,
14 Aug. 2025
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After the shooting, Hughes disposed of the rifle, wiped his computer history and tried to blame the killing on his girlfriend’s ex-husband, prosecutors said.—
Caleb Lunetta,
Mercury News,
14 Aug. 2025
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Pirro said a blanket ban on possessing shotguns and rifles violates the court's 2022 ruling that struck down a New York gun law and held that people have a right to carry firearms in public for self-defense.—
Landon Mion,
FOXNews.com,
21 Aug. 2025
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The Menendez brothers have been incarcerated for more than three decades after they were convicted of the 1989 shotgun murders of their parents, José and Kitty Menendez, in Beverly Hills.—
Liam Quinn,
People.com,
20 Aug. 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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This victim’s vision seems weird and fraudulent when Priscilla casually color-coordinates derringer pistols with designer dresses.—
Armond White,
National Review,
3 Nov. 2023
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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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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“Self-loader.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-loader. Accessed 29 Aug. 2025.
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