(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.
Fusillade
Definition:
(n.) A simultaneous discharge of firearms.
(v. t.) To shoot down of shoot at by a simultaneous discharge of firearms.
Example Sentences:
(1) Trying to escape, speaker Mohammed Magariaf's jeep was hit by a fusillade of machine-gun fire.
(2) Fusillades of incensed Times columnists from Finkelstein to Parris have the freedom to write what they believe.
(3) Perhaps the commission of inquiry into the massacre will provide some of the answers as to what prompted the collision of circumstances that led to the now unforgettable images of mineworkers falling into the dust in a fusillade from a wall of heavily armed policemen.
(4) Born in Belgium but now based in Amsterdam, Van Hove talks English at machine-gun pace, words and ideas rat-a-tat-tatting out in a fusillade of enthusiastic emphases.
(5) But if a fusillade of Tweets can make a mockery of the majesty of the law, don't we need fresh international agreements to bring some majesty back?
(6) Yet, to judge by his recent rant in the Daily Mail against "Marxist" professors, his head-butting with the unions and his condescension on Question Time to the shadow attorney general, he clearly revels in letting off fusillades against anyone who disagrees with him on education.
(7) Israel’s defence minister is out , departing not with the polite exchange of letters that would be Westminster custom but a fusillade aimed directly at his former boss.
(8) I wanted [to write] a book, like Jilly Cooper’s Riders , that ‘told all the secrets’ of sex to teenage girls in an as amusing way as possible,” Moran writes when I email her, her enthusiasm for the subject resulting in fusillades of capital letters.
(9) By last year, the fusillade of roles had become unignorable: Bernie , Killer Joe , Mud , Dallas Buyers Club, The Wolf of Wall Street , which he stole with a piece of improv designed to get him into character.
(10) More smartphone cameras appeared, thousands of them, firing one last fusillade at the flag during its final hour.
(11) Georges Salines (@GeorgesSalines) Je cherche des nouvelles de ma fille #LolaSalines qui était au #Bataclan pendant la #fusillade .
(12) Any sign of life is greeted by a fusillade of flashes and such erudite questions as "When are you going to say sorry?"
(13) Mr Taleb, the financier and bestselling author, fired off a fusillade of opinions at odds with the touchy-feely Conservatism espoused by his discussant.
(14) These fusillades of self-criticism, you sense, aren't false modesty, nor real terror, but something else: the musings of a veteran who has long since come to terms with the fact that his creative process will always be a long slide into disillusionment.
(15) First came a fusillade from Lieutenant Commander Kris Ward, delivered as the prime minister visited the armed forces operations headquarters in London.
(16) it asserts – and a veritable fusillade of toffees.
(17) Another fusillade of giggles filled the silence as I started again.