zip gun

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Recent Examples of zip gun The search turned up additional drugs, drug paraphernalia, and a zip gun. cleveland, 27 Jan. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for zip gun
Noun
  • The man initially refused but signed after Pooh Shiesty allegedly pointed an AK-style pistol his head.
    ABC News, ABC News, 2 July 2026
  • Prosecutors allege the pistol was used in a 2021 Chicago murder and later in the shooting of a rival gang member.
    Michael Sinkewicz, FOXNews.com, 1 July 2026
Noun
  • Zajko was arrested alongside LaSota and another person and charged with trespassing, resisting or interfering with an arrest, obstruction and carrying a handgun.
    N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 24 June 2026
  • Law enforcement is believed to have drawn earlier clues from security footage capturing a masked man carrying a handgun outside Nancy Guthrie’s house.
    Amanda Musa, CNN Money, 23 June 2026
Noun
  • Those women and girls made millions of rounds of small arms ammunition, as well as cannonballs and explosives for the war effort.
    Christopher DeRose, CBS News, 26 June 2026
  • 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.
    David Hambling, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
Noun
  • My dad, a police detective, made sure the Klansman saw his service revolver on his waist.
    Maureen Dowd, Mercury News, 4 July 2026
  • Knoxville, who was writing an article that led him to test self-defense equipment by using various weapons on himself, fires a revolver at his own chest from point-blank range while wearing a bulletproof vest.
    Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 26 June 2026
Noun
  • He has been charged with first-degree murder and felony firearm.
    Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 4 July 2026
  • Law enforcement later searched two locations in connection with the investigation into Hidrogo including a storage facility in Fort Worth where officers found 244 kilograms of meth with a purity level of 100 percent and more firearms.
    Fousia Abdullahi, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 July 2026
Noun
  • Officials said the gun violence took place from May 2025 to late April 2026 in a swath of the South Bronx.
    Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 30 June 2026
  • The man had a gun and refused to drop it when ordered to by police, the sheriff said.
    Angie DiMichele, Sun Sentinel, 30 June 2026
Noun
  • In the lead-up to the election, white business owners had ordered a state-of-the-art machine gun that could fire more than four hundred rounds a minute.
    Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 3 July 2026
  • Pinpoint Where Value Is Being Lost Honestly, almost everyone is trying to kill an ant with a machine gun.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
Noun
  • This mysterious derringer pistol has sparked more intrigue than any of his other dangerous finds because people want to know the back story.
    Mike Sullivan, CBS News, 17 Mar. 2026

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“Zip gun.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/zip%20gun. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.

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