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Noun
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Video from a neighbor’s Ring camera shows a man identified by police as Soto pulling a pistol, then chasing Morello while continuing to shoot and pulling the trigger at least twice after Morello stumbles and falls to the ground.—
Nate Gartrell,
Mercury News,
10 Feb. 2026 -
The Investigative Committee said a Makarov pistol with a silencer was discovered at the scene.—
CNN's Tim Lister,
CNN Money,
8 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Dressed for the occasion — and very comfortable with a semiautomatic.—
Michael Ruiz , Greg Norman,
FOXNews.com,
15 Dec. 2025
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For those who prefer the hands-on experience of making their own espresso, a semiautomatic keeps you in control.—
BestReviews,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Aug. 2025
Noun
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At the scene were two firearms, a long gun and a modified handgun, McDonald said.—
Amanda Lee Myers,
USA Today,
12 Feb. 2026
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Police recovered a long gun and a modified handgun.—
Jim Morris,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The revolver Soto used in the shooting was lawfully owned and registered, Welch added.—
Nate Gartrell,
Mercury News,
10 Feb. 2026
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According to investigators, the revolver was a family heirloom, and Holly did not have regular access to the safe.—
Bradford Betz,
FOXNews.com,
5 Feb. 2026
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On August 8, as the measles outbreak continued to make headlines, a man named Patrick Joseph White entered a CVS in northeast Atlanta and fired hundreds of rounds from a rifle into the CDC’s headquarters across the street.—
Vann R. Newkirk II,
The Atlantic,
9 Feb. 2026
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All but three of the bears were killed with a rifle.—
CBS Miami Team,
CBS News,
9 Feb. 2026
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Four-receiver sets, a shotgun formation and breakneck tempo were foreign to Faulkner.—
Edgar Thompson,
The Orlando Sentinel,
7 Feb. 2026
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After Lynch’s run and the Seahawks’ unsettled substitutions, Wilson got to the line in a shotgun formation with Lynch to his left.—
Jeff Howe,
New York Times,
7 Feb. 2026
Noun
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One hundred and fifty-nine years ago, a 26-year-old white supremacist and Confederate sympathizer named John Wilkes Booth pointed a .44 caliber derringer pistol at the back of Abraham Lincoln’s head and squeezed the trigger.—
Brian Matthew Jordan,
National Review,
14 Apr. 2024
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In 1976, after wrecking his Rolls-Royce in a drunk-driving accident, he was arrested, intoxicated, with a loaded derringer on the grounds of Elvis Presley’s Graceland estate.—
Chris Morris,
Variety,
28 Oct. 2022
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Prosecutors accused the parents of allowing their son access to the firearm and ignoring warnings about his declining mental health and risk to others.—
Eric Levenson,
CNN Money,
8 Feb. 2026
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Current owners can keep their firearms and sell them to dealers.—
Cindy Camp,
Baltimore Sun,
8 Feb. 2026
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“Self-loader.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-loader. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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