(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.
Real
Definition:
(n.) A small Spanish silver coin; also, a denomination of money of account, formerly the unit of the Spanish monetary system.
(a.) Royal; regal; kingly.
(a.) Actually being or existing; not fictitious or imaginary; as, a description of real life.
(a.) True; genuine; not artificial, counterfeit, or factitious; often opposed to ostensible; as, the real reason; real Madeira wine; real ginger.
(a.) Relating to things, not to persons.
(a.) Having an assignable arithmetical or numerical value or meaning; not imaginary.
(a.) Pertaining to things fixed, permanent, or immovable, as to lands and tenements; as, real property, in distinction from personal or movable property.
(n.) A realist.
Example Sentences:
(1) You lot have got real issues to talk about and deal with.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest With a plot based around fake (or real?)
(3) It did the job of triggering growth, but it also fueled real-estate speculation, similar to what was going on in the mid-2000s here.” Slowing economic growth may be another concern.
(4) A good example is Apple TV: Can it possibly generate real money at $100 a puck?
(5) The light intensity profile for any desired cell can be examined in "real time", even during acceleration of the rotor.
(6) It is intended to aid in finding the appropriate PI (proportional-integral) controller settings by means of computer simulation instead of real experiments with the system.
(7) Tap the relevant details into Google, though, and the real names soon appear before your eyes: the boss in question, stern and yet oddly quixotic, is Phyllis Westberg of Harold Ober Associates.
(8) There were soon tales of claimants dying after having had money withdrawn, but the real administrative problem was the explosion of appeals, which very often succeeded because many medical problems were being routinely ignored at the earlier stage.
(9) 75 min: Real Madrid substitution: Angel Di Maria off, Ricky Kaka on.
(10) It is clear that the linking of the naming rights to West Ham United generates real cash value for the LLDC and the taxpayer.
(11) The dual-probe system incorporates a central collimated probe for monitoring activity in the LV surrounded by an annular detector collimated in such a manner as to provide simultaneous real-time monitoring of the LV background activity.
(12) Real ear CVRs, calculated from real ear recordings of nonsense syllables, were obtained from eight hearing-impaired listeners.
(13) Zidane is the 15th manager Real Madrid have had since 2003.
(14) Further studies are required to show whether these differences are real and, if so, whether they have any relevance for the pathogenesis of migraine attacks.
(15) Real Labour would not just meddle with a cosmetic charge on rich London mansions .
(16) Thus, luciferase transcriptional fusions can detect subtle variations in initial rates of gene expression in a real-time, nondestructive assay.
(17) Thus, 10 degrees should be subtracted from the ultrasound values in order to obtain the real AV angles.
(18) It was not certain whether the association was real or what the explanation might be.
(19) "It will mean root-and-branch change for our banks if we are to deliver real change for Britain, if we are to rebuild our economy so it works for working people, and if we are to restore trust in a sector of our economy worth billions of pounds and hundreds of thousands of jobs to our country."
(20) The resulting corner is dealt with easily by Real, who scoot upfield through Di Maria.