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After all, no one wants to lug a 9-pound shooting iron in the squirrel woods.—T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 11 Sep. 2019 There are few things more frightening than the possibility that participants in today’s hyperpolarized partisan politics will all get into the habit of threatening to take up shooting irons to redress the imperfections of our political system.—Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 19 Mar. 2018 The occasion was a routine refusal of the Court to intervene in a highly technical California case involving that state’s ten-day waiting period for the purchase of shooting irons.—Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 20 Feb. 2018
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