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Noun
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Presumably that meant plastic pistols were nonstarters.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026 -
One video appears to show a Border Patrol officer removing a pistol from Pretti’s waistband after he had been pinned to the ground by other agents.—
Michael Collins,
USA Today,
27 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Dressed for the occasion — and very comfortable with a semiautomatic.—
Michael Ruiz , Greg Norman,
FOXNews.com,
15 Dec. 2025
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For those who prefer the hands-on experience of making their own espresso, a semiautomatic keeps you in control.—
BestReviews,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Aug. 2025
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The video also showed that Pretti’s handgun had been removed from its holster by an officer seconds before he was pinned down and shot multiple times, including in his back.—
Michael Williams,
CNN Money,
28 Jan. 2026
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Trump had also commented on Pretti’s handgun hours earlier when departing the White House.—
Callum Sutherland,
Time,
28 Jan. 2026
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The victim shot Thomas in the hip and Mouton in the face with a revolver, before being killed by gunfire, the outlet reported.—
Julia Bonavita,
FOXNews.com,
28 Jan. 2026
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The camera recorded him finding the benefit card in a shoebox in the living room and placing it next to the revolver once the safe was opened in a back bedroom, prosecutors said.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
21 Jan. 2026
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Plaintiffs claim agents boxed in a civilian’s car and pointed a rifle inside during enforcement operations.—
Kaelan Deese,
The Washington Examiner,
27 Jan. 2026
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Conservatives defended Kyle Rittenhouse as a hero for bringing a rifle to a chaotic protest in Wisconsin during the summer of 2020, as well as armed bands of protesters who marched into state capitol buildings during the COVID lockdowns.—
Jonathan Chait,
The Atlantic,
25 Jan. 2026
Noun
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But hand the ball off from that same shotgun formation?—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
6 Jan. 2026
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There was also a bad fumble on a snap out of shotgun.—
David Aldridge,
New York Times,
5 Jan. 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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He will be booked into the Sacramento County Main Jail and faces two counts of homicide, one count of assault with a deadly weapon and one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm, officials said.—
Richard Ramos,
CBS News,
13 Jan. 2026
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The operation led by the District of Massachusetts targeting machine gun conversion device vendors has led to the seizure of about 360 internet domains and more than 3,000 devices, 282 firearms, 124 silencers, more than 12,000 rounds ammunition and about 125 investigative referrals.—
Rick Sobey,
Boston Herald,
13 Jan. 2026
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“Self-loader.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-loader. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.
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