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pistol

noun as in revolver

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"I was a serving soldier. I had regular access to assault rifles, pistols, machine guns, sniper rifles. At no point there was there any risk or threat to the public."

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In the predawn hours of March 13, 1944, a Halifax bomber flew across the black waters of the Adriatic Sea carrying four Jewish paratroopers equipped with submachine guns, pistols and knives.

"Killers, killers," the group chants at the officers, one of whom is armed with a rifle, another carries a pistol.

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Suddenly, the image of a hand grasping a pistol emerges from the scrum.

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Prosecutors allege that in August "he procured an automatic rifle, eight Glock pistols and more than 600 rounds of ammunition in Germany" and had them transferred to another suspect, Wael F.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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