handgun
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The novel begins when a teenager named Rocky, accompanied by his aunt and legal guardian, Helen, finds a loaded handgun while hunting pheasant.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
It seems fair to say that the average American who wants to keep a handgun at home did not sign up for unpermitted open carry of an AR-15 at the zoo.
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2026
In May, the judge decided to exclude certain items of evidence, including a handgun magazine, a phone and a wallet, after Mangione's lawyers argued an initial police search breached procedure.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
A handgun was recovered at the apartment and will undergo forensic analysis alongside DNA and other evidence collected at the scene, Bland said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026
So much for my lucky rabbit foot, still gripped in my palm like a handgun.
From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle
After a tipoff, intelligence services and police found two handguns and ammunition stashed in a hideout in the forest, Dobrindt said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
Public support for a total ban on handguns in the home had plummeted.
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2026
In 2015, he knocked his colleagues’ failure to hear a challenge to a San Francisco rule requiring that handguns be stored in locked containers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
Gun rights advocates have praised the proposed change, saying it will enable citizens to more easily ship handguns for repairs, for sports shooting on vacation and when relocating to a new address.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026
There were four of them—all white, all wearing jeans and sweatshirts and baseball caps and bulletproof vests, and all carrying police-issue 9-millimeter semiautomatic handguns.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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