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Recent Examples of zip gun
The search turned up additional drugs, drug paraphernalia, and a zip gun.
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cleveland, 27 Jan. 2022
cleveland, 27 Jan. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for zip gun
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On March 11, a San Francisco police violence reduction team raided his Albany apartment and found a Glock pistol with a fully automatic sear switch, according to police.—
Nate Gartrell,
Mercury News,
30 Mar. 2026
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Zangara, who had purchased the pistol for $8 at a local pawnshop, mingled among a record crowd of 25,000 people who had come to catch a glimpse of the famed FDR.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
27 Mar. 2026
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Two people have been charged, and a handgun was recovered, following a gunfire incident in the early morning of March 26 on the East Side of Aurora, according to the Aurora Police Department.—
Aurora Beacon-News,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Apr. 2026
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Deputies from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department have fatally shot a man who was allegedly armed with a handgun in East LA on Wednesday morning.—
Chelsea Hylton,
CBS News,
1 Apr. 2026
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The suspension applies to at least a part of SIG Sauer, a major small arms maker based in Switzerland and Germany.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
22 Mar. 2026
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During the past few years, the Houthis have become less reliant on Iran for weapons, smuggling in drone components from Chinese companies and small arms from the Horn of Africa.—
Sudarsan Raghavan,
New Yorker,
12 Mar. 2026
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Following Alfonso Morales’ arrest, officers seized an assault rifle, a semiautomatic pistol and a revolver from the apartment, according to Montoya.—
Robert Salonga,
Mercury News,
25 Mar. 2026
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Dingle was taken into custody and charged with operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol or drugs, criminal possession of a pistol or revolver, carrying a pistol without a permit and carrying a dangerous weapon in a motor vehicle.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
23 Mar. 2026
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Bush was charged with murder, home invasion and criminal possession of a firearm.—
Naveen Dhaliwal,
CBS News,
29 Mar. 2026
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Bush is charged with murder, home invasion and criminal possession of a firearm, and is being held in lieu of a $2 million court set bond.—
Sean Krofssik,
Hartford Courant,
29 Mar. 2026
Noun
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That's when authorities said the homeowner allegedly pointed a gun at the worker, sending him running for his life.—
Erika Stanish,
CBS News,
2 Apr. 2026
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The play, like the movie, is loosely based on a robbery that took place in 1972, on a boiling-hot August day, when an eccentric, deep-in-debt Vietnam veteran named John Wojtowicz entered a Chase bank in Brooklyn with a gun and two accomplices, hoping for a quick score.—
Emily Nussbaum,
New Yorker,
2 Apr. 2026
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Cubans have now been treated to the surreal sight of the island’s most famous living musician, Silvio Rodriguez, receiving a machine gun alongside the Cuban president and top military officials.—
Patrick Oppmann,
CNN Money,
22 Mar. 2026
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The charges were trafficking in firearms, possession of a machine gun and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking crime.—
Ryan Oehrli
March 13,
Charlotte Observer,
13 Mar. 2026
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This mysterious derringer pistol has sparked more intrigue than any of his other dangerous finds because people want to know the back story.—
Mike Sullivan,
CBS News,
17 Mar. 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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“Zip gun.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/zip%20gun. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.
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