The phrase "a sort of gun" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing something that resembles or functions similarly to a gun, but may not be a traditional firearm.
Example: "The device he was holding was a sort of gun, designed to shoot tranquilizer darts rather than bullets."
Alternatives: "a type of gun" or "a kind of gun".
Arterton plays the empathic teacher, a sort of gun-wielding Miss Honey to a zombie-fied Matilda.
And Congress, especially with the House of Representatives in Republican hands, seems implacably opposed to any sort of gun restrictions.
At any rate, Alabama is a deep red state, and it seemed unlikely legislators would have moved aggressively on any sort of gun control measure in the first place.
"He was a sort of hired gun".
Giving an introductory briefing up on the big deck at Sheep Creek, staff showed us how to use a "bear banger", a sort of flare gun that fires off a charge, creating a loud noise that, in most cases, sends the beast running in the opposite direction.
A sort of all guns all the time almost any place kind of law.
A day after the president unveiled his proposals, a different sort of gun debate unfolded here, after a Republican state senator from Granbury, Brian Birdwell, filed a bill to allow those with a concealed handgun license to carry their firearms on college campuses.
Better is Farpoint, a sci-fi shooter using Sony's new sort-of-gun-shaped controller, PS VR Aim.
But they may well have no appetite to take it further — or at least not until a different sort of gun case presents itself, as one surely soon will.
"Another day, another shooting spree, and no political will to do anything about it". But there is political will building behind a certain sort of gun legislation — reforms that aim to increase, rather than decrease, the number of firearms in schools and other public buildings, and arm teachers and school staff as a means of defence.
