How to Use firearm in a Sentence

firearm

noun

• Experts say an influx of firearms combined with residual impacts from the pandemic and threats on social media may be to blame.
  — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 18 Oct. 2024
• Blake’s co-defendant, Omari Anderson, was sentenced to six years after pleading no contest to assault with a firearm, court records show.
  — Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2024
• But that doesn't extend to firearms, even at the state level.
  — CBS News, 9 July 2023
• These are among the items that cannot be brought into the event: Real and replica firearms.
  — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 2 June 2023
• That tracks with recent years past, where firearms were used in about 90% of homicides.
  — Bill Lukitsch, Kansas City Star, 22 Apr. 2024
• He was raided by the FBI in 2021 and charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm.
  — Will Carless, USA TODAY, 5 May 2023
• Inside the vehicle were drugs, a firearm and the fire hydrant.
  — Warren Kulo | [e-mail], al, 9 Mar. 2023
• Around 2 in 3 gun deaths in this age group were from playing with the firearm or showing it off to others.
  — Alexander Tin, CBS News, 14 Dec. 2023
• As officers sped to the scene, the drone flew overhead and at first appeared to confirm the man had a firearm.
  — Ken Dilanian, NBC News, 5 July 2023
• Since 2020 he’s been charged three times with being a felon in possession of a firearm.
  — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2024
• At least one officer ran past the firearm but didn’t seem to notice it, video shows.
  — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2024
• Stun guns have long been hailed as a less-lethal alternative to a firearm.
  — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2024
• Two counts of murder and one charge of deadly conduct/discharge of firearm were dropped as a part of the deal for his plea.
  — James Hartley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Mar. 2024
• The suspect pointed some kind of firearm at them and took some of their belongings.
  — Greg Norman, Fox News, 2 Aug. 2024
• Speed was charged with making a false statement during the purchase of a firearm.
  — Cesar G Rodriguez, Chron, 10 Apr. 2023
• The city of Phoenix, Arizona, is planning to send roughly 600 unclaimed firearms to Ukraine.
  — Brady Knox, Washington Examiner, 10 July 2023
• Reduce how much time someone convicted of a crime has to hand in their firearms.
  — Hannah Wiley, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2023
• He was sentenced to an additional 25-year-to-life term for using a firearm in the killing.
  — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Mar. 2023
• Gun violence is rare in China, where the regulation of firearms is among the strictest in the world.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 17 July 2024
• O’Connor wrote that the definition of a firearm in federal law does not cover all the parts of a gun.
  — Mark Sherman, Quartz, 22 Apr. 2024
• Jordan approached Mizell, pointed his firearm at him, and fired two shots at close range.
  — Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2023
• Lastly, Martin was charged with possession of a firearm by a felon.
  — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 5 Jan. 2024
• Mayers, 35, has pleaded not guilty to two counts of assaulting Ephron with a firearm.
  — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• Police now have the person in custody and seized a firearm in their possession.
  — Ayana Archie, NPR, 3 Sep. 2024
• In June of 2022, the officers placed Cox in a police van for criminal possession of a firearm and breach of the peace.
  — Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 21 Mar. 2023
• The Ozaukee sheriff's office will request a charge of possession of a firearm in a school.
  — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 15 May 2024
• Without the river of firearms flowing south, the northbound flow of drugs would diminish.
  — Ieva Jusionyte, The Mercury News, 15 Mar. 2024
• Weapons of any kind including, but not limited to, firearms and knives.
  — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 26 Aug. 2023
• Being from England, which has some of the strictest firearm laws in the world, Bennett didn’t have much experience with guns.
  — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2024
• Dispatch audio said a woman called police and said her daughter got a hold of her purse – which had a firearm in it.
  — CBS News, 30 May 2023

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024