What's the difference between blunderbuss and firearm?

Blunderbuss


Definition:

  • (n.) A short gun or firearm, with a large bore, capable of holding a number of balls, and intended to do execution without exact aim.
  • (n.) A stupid, blundering fellow.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They're camped outside Poundbury, Charles's "traditional" village (built in 1993), and the only way they will be vanquished is if Charles takes his blunderbuss and heads into the forest to execute some of them.
  • (2) Likewise, Labour should think carefully about plans to pursue the politics of envy or milk the capital with blunderbuss tactics such as a mansion tax.
  • (3) Lazaretto, the follow-up to 2012's Blunderbuss, will be released through White's Third Man Records on 9 June.
  • (4) The complaints were levelled most explicitly in a 2012 article in the Atlantic magazine, entitled " Jack White's Women Problem ", which painted White as a dinosaur who was controlling towards women and guilty of patronising them in his songs, such as Freedom at 21 from Blunderbuss .
  • (5) With his first solo album, 2012's Blunderbuss , there was endless speculation about how personal White – hot from his divorce from British supermodel Elson – had got, with the singer forced to reaffirm that he would never be stupid enough to write open letters to loved ones, past or present.
  • (6) The singer's first solo LP, Blunderbuss, was released in 2012, and White has recently released a new single with his band Dead Weather .
  • (7) "They think they're hot shit, but they're kind of fuck-ups," says Johnson, who points to the Loopers' choice of weapon – chunky buck-spitters known as Blunderbusses – as evidence of their true status.
  • (8) Click here to watch High Ball Stepper Unlike Blunderbuss, which White issued as several special packages, Lazaretto will get only one limited-edition treatment.
  • (9) Modes of therapy aimed at one particular chain of events have varying degrees of success, as indeed does more blunderbuss treatment with steroids, anti-inflammatory drugs, or cytotoxic agents.
  • (10) Attempts are being made to modify the present blunderbuss attack on the immune system with more specific methods of control of certain of its components.
  • (11) In February, White told Rolling Stone that he was already working on "20 to 25 tracks" for a followup to his solo debut, 2012's Blunderbuss .
  • (12) Blunderbuss debuted at No 1 in the UK, spending 14 years on the album chart.
  • (13) Overall, including more than 80,000 digital purchases, Lazaretto sold about 138,000 copies - the same figure as White's solo debut, 2012's Blunderbuss.
  • (14) United pressed with ever-increasing urgency but the accuracy of a blunderbuss and Wales’s standard bearers held on to their lead without real difficulty to record the double over their distinguished opponents for the first time.

Firearm


Definition:

  • (n.) A gun, pistol, or any weapon from a shot is discharged by the force of an explosive substance, as gunpowder.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Biden will meet with representatives from six gun groups on Thursday, including the NRA and the Independent Firearms Owners Association, which are both publicly opposed to stricter gun-control laws.
  • (2) The severity of injury in a gunshot wound is dependent on many factors, including the type of firearm; the velocity, mass, and construction of the bullet; and the structural properties of the tissues that are wounded.
  • (3) Critical comparisons of Ba and Sb in firearms discharge residue were made on samples collected by three independent collection technqiues.
  • (4) It was the first time firearms were widely used against police, with around 90 officers wounded.
  • (5) It sent shockwaves through the entire armed policing community.” Chesterman added: “Morale among firearms officers is poor.
  • (6) Waco, Texas, will forever be known for the siege that began in February 1993 when agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms raided a compound owned by the Branch Davidian religious sect to investigate allegations of weapons hoarding.
  • (7) He calmly and politely volunteered: “Sir, I have to tell you I do have a firearm on me.” Police hunt and kill black people like Philando Castile.
  • (8) Firearms officers will test the cameras in their training environment in Gravesend, Kent, with a view to wearing them on duty if the pilot is a success.
  • (9) She said it was time there was an offence of possessing firearms with intent to supply, arguing: "Those people who are supplying the firearms are as guilty as the people using them when it comes to the impact."
  • (10) He recommended that skilled police officers be paid up to £2,000 more than they are now, and said a new expertise and professional accreditation allowance of £1,200 would be introduced for most detectives, firearms, public order and neighbourhood policing teams.
  • (11) Though 3D printers might change the regulatory picture for firearms in years or decades, the regulatability of guns remains intact for now.
  • (12) In 1993, at the Branch Davidian religious compound outside Waco, Texas, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms didn’t wait for the sect leader, David Koresh, to leave before attempting to arrest him and got into a gun battle that claimed 10 victims and led to a disastrous 51-day siege culminating in dozens more deaths.
  • (13) In 2010, while he was based at Fort Worth in Texas, he was arrested after discharging a firearm.
  • (14) Opinion polls suggest a clear majority in favour of requiring background checks on all firearms sales in Washington state including at gun shows and through private advertising.
  • (15) A total of 743 firearm-related deaths occurred during this six-year period, 398 of which (54 percent) occurred in the residence where the firearm was kept.
  • (16) The government flagged the forthcoming firearms legislation on Friday, adding to its previous announcement about an imminent bill to expand the powers of intelligence agencies , including to access the computers of people who are not the primary subject of an investigation.
  • (17) Not one more American serviceman or woman should be murdered on a military base because the government denied their right to defend themselves with a firearm.” Barack Obama’s defense department released a new directive on 18 November that clarifies the process of how commanders can give service members approval to carry their own personal weapons for self-defense on military bases.
  • (18) Seventy-four percent believed pediatricians have a responsibility to counsel families about firearms.
  • (19) The most recent figures, causing all the alarm, show that offences involving firearms increased by 13% to 5,864 in 2016 compared with 5,176 incidents in 2015.
  • (20) Agents of the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) concluded there could only be one customer for such a collection: the Mexican drug cartels fighting a bloody war against each other, the government and civilians south of the Texas border.

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