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handgun

noun as in firearm

Strong match

noun as in pistol

noun as in Saturday night special

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Staff had kicked Hodgson out, reporting he drunkenly wandered into the women’s restroom while armed with a handgun.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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