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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shotguns
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Back then, students halted studies to pick up rifles, muskets, and bayonets.
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The new United States needed muskets, cannons, ammunition, uniforms, cloth, food and credit.
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Teri handled higher-value finds and saw that potentially dangerous items – like firearms and knives – got to the local sheriff’s office.
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Many of the firearms are believed to have been stolen, and could be linked to crimes in the region, federal officials said.
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The lawsuit targets legislation that took effect Wednesday and bans the sale of pistols that can easily be converted to fully automatic weapons, or machine guns.
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The law goes after Glock-style pistols, which can be converted into fully-automatic machine guns.
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Those women and girls made millions of rounds of small arms ammunition, as well as cannonballs and explosives for the war effort.
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While some videos include a soundtrack of small arms fire, there is little sign of the mobile fire groups of volunteers armed with anti-aircraft machine guns which Russia is now deploying at scale.
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“Shotguns.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shotguns. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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