handgun
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Following his arrest, officers strip-searched him and went through property that included a handgun, a silencer and a jar of Skippy peanut butter.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 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
The matchlock wasn’t the only kind of handgun in use.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
Officials said a handgun was located alongside the remains.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026
His handgun is black; it seems to draw all the light in the room toward it.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
He added that California law requires people carrying handguns into and out of the store to keep them in a locked container and for handguns and long guns to be unloaded.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
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
In 1556 a Venetian author named Girolamo Garimberto published a treatise on the proper behavior of soldiers that condemned small handguns as more suitable to a “street assassin” than an honest soldier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 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
