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Recent Examples of weaponryBut does Europe have enough economic weaponry to force the White House to think again?—Jim Edwards, Fortune, 21 Jan. 2026 The authorities deployed military-grade electronic weaponry designed to disrupt the GPS signals that Starlink equipment needs to function, a step that activists and civil society groups said was rarely taken outside battlefields like those in Ukraine.—New York Times, 15 Jan. 2026 The United Arab Emirates has been accused by human rights groups of directly supplying the RSF with weaponry, an allegation the country strongly denied, while Saudi Arabia and Egypt have allied with the SAF.—Byguy Davies, ABC News, 9 Jan. 2026 Chemical analysis of organic residues on the miniscule quartz weaponry found the presence of buphandrine and epibuphanisine.—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 7 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for weaponry
The government brought forward major reforms and bans on assault-style weapons after the country suffered its worst-ever shooting attack in 2020, when a man impersonating a police officer killed 22 people in northern Nova Scotia.
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Max Saltman,
CNN Money,
15 Feb. 2026
Before the June war, Iran had been enriching uranium up to 60% purity, a short technical step away from weapons-grade levels.
After Maldonado consented to a search, police located seven rounds of ammunition in his back pocket, a black face mask in his jacket pocket and a gun in the vehicle.
Vaughn was previously convicted of on three counts each of armed assault to murder and mayhem, and a single count of unlawful possession of ammunition in 2007.