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a portable weapon from which a shot is discharged by gunpowder
will need a permit to carry a firearm
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Recent Examples of firearms
Current owners can keep their firearms and sell them to dealers.
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Cindy Camp, Baltimore Sun, 8 Feb. 2026
Senate Bill 4 would build off Colorado’s 2019 extreme risk protection orders law, which allows family members, law enforcement, health care professionals and educators to petition the courts to require people to surrender their firearms temporarily.
—The Denver Post, Denver Post, 7 Feb. 2026
Mangione faces murder and firearms charges in New York state and stalking charges in federal court.
—Lorena O’Neil, Rolling Stone, 7 Feb. 2026
Officers found two firearms on the suspect and observed smoke and flames coming from a doorway.
—Garrett Behanna, CBS News, 7 Feb. 2026
The Department of Veterans Affairs has shown that access to firearms is associated with suicide, particularly for those with traumatic brain injury.
—Eleanor M. Perfetto, STAT, 7 Feb. 2026
The brief said shell casings from one of Clegg’s firearms matched those found at the scene of the May 25, 2022, shooting, and cell phone records indicated at least one of Clegg’s phones was present at the shooting locations.
—Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 6 Feb. 2026
Pastors concerns As the bill was debated this week and last, some faith leaders expressed concern that the bill could override a religious institution’s ability to make their own decisions about firearms and security.
—Lauren Costantino
february 5, Miami Herald, 5 Feb. 2026
Policing experts said that when officers are trying to arrest people found to have firearms, they are taught to alert their fellow officers and then draw their own guns and order the people to drop theirs or to try to disarm them.
—Jon Schuppe, NBC news, 26 Jan. 2026
Cindy Camp, Baltimore Sun, 8 Feb. 2026
Senate Bill 4 would build off Colorado’s 2019 extreme risk protection orders law, which allows family members, law enforcement, health care professionals and educators to petition the courts to require people to surrender their firearms temporarily.
—The Denver Post, Denver Post, 7 Feb. 2026
Mangione faces murder and firearms charges in New York state and stalking charges in federal court.
—Lorena O’Neil, Rolling Stone, 7 Feb. 2026
Officers found two firearms on the suspect and observed smoke and flames coming from a doorway.
—Garrett Behanna, CBS News, 7 Feb. 2026
The Department of Veterans Affairs has shown that access to firearms is associated with suicide, particularly for those with traumatic brain injury.
—Eleanor M. Perfetto, STAT, 7 Feb. 2026
The brief said shell casings from one of Clegg’s firearms matched those found at the scene of the May 25, 2022, shooting, and cell phone records indicated at least one of Clegg’s phones was present at the shooting locations.
—Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 6 Feb. 2026
Pastors concerns As the bill was debated this week and last, some faith leaders expressed concern that the bill could override a religious institution’s ability to make their own decisions about firearms and security.
—Lauren Costantino
february 5, Miami Herald, 5 Feb. 2026
Policing experts said that when officers are trying to arrest people found to have firearms, they are taught to alert their fellow officers and then draw their own guns and order the people to drop theirs or to try to disarm them.
—Jon Schuppe, NBC news, 26 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for firearms
guns
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Cellphone video recorded inside the school during the chaotic situation showed deputies from the Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office sweeping the school with guns drawn.—
Morgan Rynor,
CBS News,
5 Feb. 2026
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Speaking on the morning after the shootings, Mayor Brandon Johnson said police had made 18 arrests and recovered five guns while responding to the shootings.—
Caroline Kubzansky,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Feb. 2026
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“Firearms.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/firearms. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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