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Recent Examples of carbine
So, please, don't shoot my eye out with an official Red Ryder, carbine action, 200-shot range model air rifle!
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Chris Nashawaty, EW.com, 28 Nov. 2023
These are the victims of the Nashville school shooting The AR-15 and 9 mm pistol caliber carbine appear to have 30-round magazines, according to experts who reviewed photos and video released by police.
—Ray Sanchez, CNN, 30 Mar. 2023
The shooter was armed with a Hi-Point .45-caliber carbine long gun.
—Phil Helsel, NBC News, 21 Nov. 2023
Kim presented Putin with a carbine made by Korean craftsmen and other gifts, the Kremlin spokesman said.
—Mikhail Klimentov, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2023
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Chris Nashawaty, EW.com, 28 Nov. 2023
These are the victims of the Nashville school shooting The AR-15 and 9 mm pistol caliber carbine appear to have 30-round magazines, according to experts who reviewed photos and video released by police.
—Ray Sanchez, CNN, 30 Mar. 2023
The shooter was armed with a Hi-Point .45-caliber carbine long gun.
—Phil Helsel, NBC News, 21 Nov. 2023
Kim presented Putin with a carbine made by Korean craftsmen and other gifts, the Kremlin spokesman said.
—Mikhail Klimentov, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2023
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Find the nearest rest and ready your rifle, a buck is apt to roll up out of there next.Michael Hanback, Outdoor Life, 7 Nov. 2024
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Last week, Trump suggested that rifles should be trained on former Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., who has endorsed Harris and become one of the former president's most vocal GOP critics.Karissa Waddick, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2024
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On back-to-back plays, though, Jordan Love fumbled shotgun snaps.Rob Reischel, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
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Then there is the twin shotgun blast of this month’s Terrifier 3 and Smile 2.Chris Lee, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
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Should that musket misfire, don’t look for the cleric.Rob Wieland, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024
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The town's population grew in the 1820s as a result of the lead mining boom, where the mine became one of the most productive in the region, manufacturing the musket balls used in the Civil War, according to the city's website.Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 3 Sep. 2024
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These are people who woke up one Saturday morning and were soon dodging bullets and grenades, cradling the dead bodies of their husbands and daughters, kneeling before AK-47s and begging to be spared.Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2024
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It's believed two gunmen using two separate weapons killed the half-dozen hostages. AK-47 magazines and shell casings were found nearby, Israeli officials said.Raf Sanchez, NBC News, 10 Sep. 2024
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Jaquez Myrick, 25, was arrested and charged with possession of a machine gun, the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, or ALEA, said in a statement.Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 10 Nov. 2024
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The charges include conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire, committing murder-for-hire involving a death, and use of a machine gun in a violent crime resulting in death.Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 25 Oct. 2024
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My first rifle had been a flintlock that had been given to me by an old friend, Ed Wesson, the gunsmith.Outdoor Life, Outdoor Life, 23 Nov. 2023
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Modern gun technologies are far, far more deadly than the one-shot flintlocks of the 18th century—shouldn’t that matter?Robert J. Spitzer, Time, 6 June 2023
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Police also found 89 firearms, including handguns, submachine guns and AR-15-style rifles, as well as small explosive devices, large quantities of ammunition, silencers, high-capacity magazines, body armor and $500,000 in Canadian, equivalent to roughly $360,000 in US dollars.Max Hauptman, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2024
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Hernandez said detectives seized a fully automatic submachine gun, ammunition and evidence related to the crimes.Jason Green, The Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2024
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First-generation matchlock rifles, tanks, and aircraft had major limitations but improved over time.Paul Scharre, Foreign Affairs, 15 Feb. 2018
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Guns are a part of American life, and have been since the very beginning, from the matchlock muskets arming the earliest colonies to the Colt revolvers and Winchester rifles of the Old West to the Glock handgun of today.Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 7 Mar. 2018
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“Carbine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carbine. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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