long gun

noun

plural long guns

: a firearm having a long barrel and intended to be fired from the shoulder

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One of the older children got ahold of a long gun that was located in the back of the vehicle and accidentally shot the infant, McManus said. —

Gabriella Rudy, NBC News, 25 Oct. 2024 Federal law similarly sets the minimum age to possess a handgun at 18 but has no restriction for possessing long guns. —

Corey G. Johnson, ProPublica, 24 Oct. 2024 Other images show men with long guns, wearing balaclavas, moving through neighborhoods on foot, and of armed plainclothes men shoving people into S.U.V.s, and whisking them away. —

Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2024 The area Vance visited was heavily guarded by law enforcement, with some officers wearing camouflage uniforms and holding long guns atop of a SWAT vehicle. —

Stephanie Murray, The Arizona Republic, 1 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for long gun