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a type of long gun that was used by soldiers before the invention of the rifle
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This image provided by Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, shows a lead musket ball that was excavated in the summer of 2023 by archaeologists.
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CBS News, 17 May 2024
Also, even though the 16th Amendment – which ushered in the federal income tax – didn’t pass until 1909, Mr. Jacobs happily deducted the cost of his musket and other accoutrements as business expenses.
—Roy Rivenburg, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Aug. 2024
But by the Civil War, muskets had been replaced by rifled barrels, which took much less time to reload and were more accurate.
—Mark A. Milley, Foreign Affairs, 5 Aug. 2024
These kinds of indentations are formed when a shot is fired from a smooth-bore musket, per the statement.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 July 2024
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CBS News, 17 May 2024
Also, even though the 16th Amendment – which ushered in the federal income tax – didn’t pass until 1909, Mr. Jacobs happily deducted the cost of his musket and other accoutrements as business expenses.
—Roy Rivenburg, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Aug. 2024
But by the Civil War, muskets had been replaced by rifled barrels, which took much less time to reload and were more accurate.
—Mark A. Milley, Foreign Affairs, 5 Aug. 2024
These kinds of indentations are formed when a shot is fired from a smooth-bore musket, per the statement.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for musket
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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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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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The first Menendez brothers trial for the 1989 shotgun murders of their parents Jose and Kitty resulted in a hung jury.Christine Pelisek, People.com, 16 Dec. 2024
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After three straight drives in the second half without a first down, the Packers reeled off three in a row to start their next drive but still didn’t score on it after a shotgun run to Jacobs was stuffed well short on fourth and 2 from Seattle’s 39-yard line.Michael-Shawn Dugar, The Athletic, 16 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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Mangione is scheduled for his next court appearance Thursday morning for a preliminary hearing on firearms charges in Pennsylvania.Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 17 Dec. 2024
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Additionally, firearms were the leading cause of death among children in both 2020 and 2021, per data from KFF, a nonprofit that provides research about health care issues.Dan Perry, Newsweek, 17 Dec. 2024
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The switches, which can be purchased for less than $20 or created on a 3D printer, allow the pistols to fire up to 1,200 rounds per minute, according to Platkin.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024
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The pistol was loaded with a Glock magazine containing six nine-millimeter full metal jacket rounds.Molly Bohannon, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
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“Musket.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/musket. Accessed 23 Dec. 2024.
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