rifle
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When deputies arrived and found Snyder in the area, Modica said, he was carrying a rifle and explained that he was on his way to the post office.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026
Police said a rifle was recovered from Porter on the night he was killed.
From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2026
WSJ: Ruger has built its brand identity on being an American gun company—made here, sold here, the first rifle a lot of kids in America ever touch.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
Carrying a rifle, he posed with other soldiers wearing military fatigues.
From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026
I would hear them every morning when I passed the railroad car and paused over the chickweed and bull thistle growing where Tyler had buried the rifle.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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