firearm
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Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley says he is "flabbergasted" that "serious knife and firearm offenders" are freed on bail "again and again".
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
Last fall in Baltimore County, Maryland, a detection system decided a teenager named Taki Allen was holding a firearm.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
A Downey man was charged with a federal firearm-related offense after he was apprehended at the Trump National Golf Club with ammunition in his pocket and a loaded firearm in his pickup truck.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Finally, amid growing distrust of the police and the government, firearm sales began to increase during 2015 and 2016, setting an all-time record in 2020.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
Many shunned him; a few nodded, and handed him their weapons; he rubbed the unguent on the stock and muzzle, all the while whispering to the firearm coaxingly in some unknown tongue.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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Jurors were also informed that Walters’ partial fingerprint was found on the white Spencer’s bag holding the cache of stolen firearms that Oxford turned over to police.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella has signed a decree which eases restrictions on people carrying legal firearms in public.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
Founded in the 19th century by Jewish brothers Loeb and Moses Simson in Suhl, Thuringia, it grew into a thriving industrial firm that made firearms but also bicycles and luxury automobiles.
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
The firearms retailer never got any formal complaints at that location, according to city officials in Goleta, an affluent Santa Barbara County coastal town.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Miss Folsom, the firearms teacher, scowls at my shot grouping.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
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