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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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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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The one fatality among the troops was a Union officer who was downed by a musket shot through the thigh, according to a Texas Historical Marker at the site.Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 12 Mar. 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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In addition to being sought for the slaying of a 21-year-old man in East New York, Christopher Ferguson, 21, was riding shotgun in a vehicle spotted fleeing the Whitman Houses in Fort Greene, where a ShotSpotter device recorded gunfire around 3 p.m., cops said.Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 6 Dec. 2024
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Falcons quarterback Kirk Cousins set up in shotgun formation with three receivers to his right and tight end Kyle Pitts isolated to his left.Daniel Popper, The Athletic, 2 Dec. 2024
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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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Instead, two-thirds of these killings occur in the home, and most of these murders involve firearms.Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 6 Dec. 2024
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At the department's daily crime briefing, officials also are identifying offenders linked to firearm violence, including any domestic violence involving a gun, and automatically sending those names to the department's Special Investigations Division.Ashley Luthern, Journal Sentinel, 6 Dec. 2024
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During the killing, the pistol jammed, but the gunman was able to clear the jam and kept firing before running off.Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 5 Dec. 2024
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Battle as a Mandalorian Nite Owl, Mandalorian Warrior, and two Imperial Commandos, each with their own blaster pistols and jetpack elements.Mia Huelsbeck, People.com, 28 Nov. 2024
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“Flintlock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flintlock. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.
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