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Recent Examples of flintlock
Highly flammable, amadou has also served as tinder for flintlock guns and prehistoric campfires.
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Kenneth Miller, Discover Magazine, 30 May 2013
Remington, the country’s oldest gun maker, began making flintlock rifles in 1816.
—From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 13 Nov. 2021
Remington, the country's oldest gun maker, began making flintlock rifles in 1816.
—CBS News, 8 Nov. 2021
To date, the legal debate over the Second Amendment has largely assumed that gun technology unfolds over time according to a single, linear logic, from the colonial flintlock musket to the modern AR-15.
—Jennifer Tucker, CNN, 20 Oct. 2021
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Kenneth Miller, Discover Magazine, 30 May 2013
Remington, the country’s oldest gun maker, began making flintlock rifles in 1816.
—From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 13 Nov. 2021
Remington, the country's oldest gun maker, began making flintlock rifles in 1816.
—CBS News, 8 Nov. 2021
To date, the legal debate over the Second Amendment has largely assumed that gun technology unfolds over time according to a single, linear logic, from the colonial flintlock musket to the modern AR-15.
—Jennifer Tucker, CNN, 20 Oct. 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for flintlock
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Across the Atlantic Ocean in Massachusetts, archaeologists dug up a set of much smaller projectiles: five musket balls fired during the Battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775.Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Dec. 2024
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Eventually Claire is able to remove the second musket ball, and Lord John happily announces the news to William and Rachel, who are waiting in the parlor.Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 29 Nov. 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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Detectives later learned that Mr. Greer carried a double-barrel 12-gauge shotgun in his patrol car and that Ms. Easterly had been shot with a 12-gauge shotgun.Michael Levenson, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2025
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In 2020, police had raided the home of Randy’s dad and seized cocaine, fentanyl, cash, a couple Mossberg shotguns, a pill press, and a stun gun.Jesse Hyde, Rolling Stone, 4 Jan. 2025
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Colman is Edith Swan, a middle-aged church lady who still lives with her blunderbuss of a father (Timothy Spall) and mild-mannered mother (Gemma Jones) in a working-class neighborhood of Littlehampton.Ty Burr, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2024
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The State Department, in its blunderbuss way, wanted to open up a kind of détente with the citizens of Communist Eastern Europe.Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 27 Mar. 2023
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The bill redefines dealers to include anyone who sells over 11 firearms or specific components annually.Tim Clouser | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 4 Jan. 2025
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Witnesses told officers that the Hayes-Reed’s firearm had malfunctioned.Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Jan. 2025
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From an opening scene on the high seas as a French merchant ship is aflame to a stag hunt on an aristocratic estate to a pistol duel at dawn, the writer-directors capture the scope and grandeur of Dumas’ story.Scott Phillips, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
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He had been shot four times with a .45-caliber pistol and had been struck by a vehicle, police said.Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 29 Dec. 2024
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“Flintlock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flintlock. Accessed 17 Jan. 2025.
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