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Some key finds were a 4,500-year-old projectile point, animal bones in fireplaces that revealed the soldiers’ diet, and lead drippings from a task usually assigned to the women of the encampments: pouring lead into molds to create musket balls.—
Pamela Brown,
Hartford Courant,
18 Mar. 2025 -
The musket ball was finally removed 17 years after Miller was wounded.—
Doug Ross,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Feb. 2025
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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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Beretta traces its history to 1526, when Bartolomeo Beretta (d. 1565), a rifle barrel maker in the small northern Italian town of Gardone, sold 185 arquebus barrels—a handheld long gun and a forerunner to the modern rifle—to the Republic of Venice.—
Giacomo Tognini,
Forbes,
25 Mar. 2025
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The worshipers insisted on congregating to pray at the crucifix in the local church and threatened to shoot with an arquebus – a long gun used during the Renaissance period – anyone who got in their way.—
Hannah Marcus,
The Conversation,
25 Sep. 2020
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Although a gunshot from a flintlock pistol lasts only an eye blink, the sound is composed of numerous elements: the squeeze of the trigger, the strike of the firing mechanism against the flint, the ignition of the powder, the slug’s passage through the barrel, the report, the impact.—
Alexis Soloski,
New York Times,
3 Jan. 2025
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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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Titans head coach Brian Callahan worked with Joe Burrow, who likes to play out of shotgun and brilliantly balances in-structure play and out-of-structure play.—
Ted Nguyen,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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The sheriff shared a photo of the gun, which appears to be an antique single-shot pistol chambered to fire .410 shotgun shells.—
Mitchell Willetts,
Kansas City Star,
26 Mar. 2025
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Now comes President Donald Trump with his blunderbuss actions that weaken or threaten to weaken the press across the board, perplexing us all who are paying attention.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
23 Mar. 2025
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Cost cutting ‘blunderbuss’ DOGE is part of a long line of presidential efforts to take an ax to the administrative state.—
Zac Anderson,
USA TODAY,
11 Feb. 2025
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Brownlee was arrested shortly after the May 21 robbery and police seized items used in the robberies and two firearms, including the one Brownlee purchased to rob the jewelry store, officials said.—
Lillie Davidson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
29 Mar. 2025
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Colorado legislature passes gun control bill requiring training before purchase for certain firearms The appearance of impropriety — of greased palms — was part of the motivation for the initial ban on lobbyist giving, said Doug Friednash, a former legislator who introduced the policy back in 1993.—
Seth Klamann,
Denver Post,
28 Mar. 2025
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Police recovered a Taurus Millenium G2 9mm pistol near the spot where Grant fell, the report says.—
Staff Reports,
Hartford Courant,
21 Mar. 2025
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Once Mark and Drummond descend down the elevator into the testing floor, the innie abruptly transforms into his outie, pulling the trigger on a bolt pistol originally intended for one of Lumon’s goats.—
Josh Wigler,
The Hollywood Reporter,
21 Mar. 2025
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“Firelock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/firelock. Accessed 4 Apr. 2025.
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