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
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Noun
  • They were then directed to a safe house where a pistol with a silencer was waiting for them.
    Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 13 July 2025
  • Police said Wright placed the pistol to his head and fired one shot.
    Natalie Davies, Freep.com, 11 July 2025
Noun
  • According to police, the man was taken into custody and hospitalized in stable condition with a handgun retrieved from him.
    Jose R. Gonzalez, AZCentral.com, 12 July 2025
  • Authorities also reported finding a loaded P80 handgun with no serial number.
    Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 11 July 2025
Noun
  • Other buyers in Asia such as Bangladesh and Myanmar have acquired armored vehicles, trainer aircraft, and small arms.
    Amir Daftari John Feng, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 June 2025
  • In contrast, Ukraine, engaged in a war with Russia, received 40,000 small arms from the United States between January 2020 and April 2024 – an average of 9,000 per year.
    Sean Campbell, The Conversation, 28 May 2025
Noun
  • The lawsuit stems from an incident on Oct. 21, 2021, when an old-fashioned revolver Alec Baldwin was handling went off.
    Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 30 June 2025
  • Police said that officers on the scene recovered a revolver from under Steven's body.
    Chris Spargo, People.com, 16 June 2025
Noun
  • Weapons of any kind including, but not limited to, firearms and knives.
    Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 14 July 2025
  • More than a dozen of the recruits spent this past week at the NYPD range in Rodman’s Neck to make sure they’re certified on firearms before the graduation, the sources said.
    Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 11 July 2025
Noun
  • And second, those engaging in gun violence do so after curfew, hence the need for curfews and stronger police presence at night.
    Leah Olajide, Freep.com, 8 July 2025
  • In the air, its air force jets must rely on missiles and guns to engage drones that breach its sovereign airspace.
    John Feng, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 July 2025
Noun
  • Its big selling feature is a revolver-like cylinder that spins and snicks along on precision bearings, just like the cylinder of a six-shooter.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 11 June 2025
  • Richard’s odds are lousier than Reacher’s were when Beck forced Reacher to play because this revolver is a five-shot model instead of a six-shooter.
    Chris Klimek, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • This victim’s vision seems weird and fraudulent when Priscilla casually color-coordinates derringer pistols with designer dresses.
    Armond White, National Review, 3 Nov. 2023

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“Zip gun.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/zip%20gun. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.

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