handgun
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Trairong Piwpan, a spokesman for the Royal Thai Police, said the suspected shooter had found his grandfather’s 9mm handgun along with ammunition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Marx claims to be the world’s fastest gun disarmer, a skill that seems to require an assailant to stick a handgun directly in your face rather than shoot you from a few feet away.
From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026
Officials said a handgun was located alongside the remains.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026
He denied knowing that Huntley had obtained a handgun, a converted starter pistol and said he had nothing to do with arranging it.
From BBC ● May 28, 2026
Anyone who knows anything about firearms will tell you that a 9mm handgun cannot misfire in the way that gun did.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
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
As Ms. Fletcher emphasizes, handguns were increasingly associated with one specific crime—the assassination of high-profile statesmen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
They also argue that it will make it harder for law enforcement to trace the movement of handguns and solve related crimes.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026
Data from Ontario, Canada's most populous province, shows that the majority of handguns recovered from crimes in 2024 - about 91% - originate from the US.
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 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
