pistol

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Hunting groups like Safari Club International and the California Rifle and Pistol Assn., as well as animal rights groups In Defense of Animals and the Humane Society, also oppose the cull.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2026

A deactivated World War Two Luger Pistol and Sten submachine gun were both lost in June 2023.

From BBC • Dec. 26, 2024

Pistol Pete played for LSU from 1967-70 and, like Woodard, in the era preceding the 3-point shot.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 28, 2024

History supports bans in places like “legislative assemblies, polling places, and courthouses,” Justice Clarence Thomas reiterated for a majority last year in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v.

From Slate • Jan. 3, 2024

We’d eat graveyard snow cones—lime, orange, grape, cherry mixed together—and pacos from the Crystal Pistol booth—seasoned beef in a cocoon of hot fry bread, the orange grease squirting and burning the insides of our cheeks.

From "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" by emily m. danforth