handgun
Example Sentences
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Staff had kicked Hodgson out, reporting he drunkenly wandered into the women’s restroom while armed with a handgun.
From Los Angeles Times
Brown is accused of taking a handgun from a security staff member outside a May 16 event in Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood and firing two shots at another man.
From Los Angeles Times
The lawsuit stated that the student was armed with a 9mm handgun, legally purchased by his mother, when she dropped him off at school on the day of the shooting.
Police said the man possessed an unlicensed handgun and copies of U.S.
From Los Angeles Times
The revision came after media reports said handguns issued to regular Japanese police are of limited use against bears because the weapons are not powerful enough to kill them.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.