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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
In 2021 5,972 firearms were intercepted at airports, in 2022 6,542 firearms were stopped at checkpoints, while 2023 saw 6,737 firearms discovered in carry-on luggage.
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Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
No stranger to controversy or conflict, Underwood once ran a firearms marketplace that made headlines for hosting an auction of the handgun used in the Trayvon Martin shooting, in which the 17-year-old was killed by a member of a community watch organization while walking in Miami Gardens, Florida.
—Kansas City Star, 16 Sep. 2025
Subscribers pay a monthly fee, typically less than fifty dollars, in order to have access to low-cost or no-cost legal representation from attorneys who are well versed in firearms law.
—Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2025
One reason is that the availability of increasingly lethal firearms continues to grow dramatically.
—John J. Donohue, Time, 15 Sep. 2025
Social media shows members of his family included hunters, people very familiar and comfortable with firearms.
—ABC News, 14 Sep. 2025
Easy access to firearms, and the opposition from most Republicans to stricter gun laws.
—Mike Lillis, The Hill, 13 Sep. 2025
These more modern firearms became not only practical tools of war, crime or self-defense but symbolic objects in their own right.
—Maurizio Valsania, The Conversation, 12 Sep. 2025
Hoosiers can hunt frogs with bow and arrows, clubs, some firearms, or simply, their hands, but Plumier teaches those gathered at Goose Pond how to use gigs — long, multi-pronged spears that look a little bit like tridents.
—Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 9 Sep. 2025
Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
No stranger to controversy or conflict, Underwood once ran a firearms marketplace that made headlines for hosting an auction of the handgun used in the Trayvon Martin shooting, in which the 17-year-old was killed by a member of a community watch organization while walking in Miami Gardens, Florida.
—Kansas City Star, 16 Sep. 2025
Subscribers pay a monthly fee, typically less than fifty dollars, in order to have access to low-cost or no-cost legal representation from attorneys who are well versed in firearms law.
—Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2025
One reason is that the availability of increasingly lethal firearms continues to grow dramatically.
—John J. Donohue, Time, 15 Sep. 2025
Social media shows members of his family included hunters, people very familiar and comfortable with firearms.
—ABC News, 14 Sep. 2025
Easy access to firearms, and the opposition from most Republicans to stricter gun laws.
—Mike Lillis, The Hill, 13 Sep. 2025
These more modern firearms became not only practical tools of war, crime or self-defense but symbolic objects in their own right.
—Maurizio Valsania, The Conversation, 12 Sep. 2025
Hoosiers can hunt frogs with bow and arrows, clubs, some firearms, or simply, their hands, but Plumier teaches those gathered at Goose Pond how to use gigs — long, multi-pronged spears that look a little bit like tridents.
—Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 9 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for firearms
guns
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The woman told police Anderson owned guns and had mentioned making pipe bombs, per the outlet.—
Christina Coulter,
PEOPLE,
19 Sep. 2025
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America will never be a country without guns.—
Heidi Yewman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 Sep. 2025
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“Firearms.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/firearms. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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