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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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Four officers ran to the fence - three pulling out handguns and another pointing what appeared to be a shotgun.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
9 Apr. 2025
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So the next day, his father rode shotgun, guiding him through traffic and offering wisdom: Never race other taxis to a fare.—
Jonah Markowitz,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 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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Authorities found a 9 mm pistol, three additional firearms, ammunition and two suppressors in Santos' bedroom, according to court documents.—
Audrey Conklin,
FOXNews.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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Also, on Georgia's public Wildlife Management Areas, tegus can be killed with firearms legal during the current hunting season.—
Cheryl McCloud,
USA Today,
9 Apr. 2025
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Officers spotted Jillian Shriner in the yard of her house, located next door, holding a pistol.—
Jem Aswad,
Variety,
10 Apr. 2025
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Authorities found a 9 mm pistol, three additional firearms, ammunition and two suppressors in Santos' bedroom, according to court documents.—
Audrey Conklin,
FOXNews.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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“Firelock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/firelock. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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