Sentence examples for first firearms from inspiring English sources

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The first firearms were primitive devices lacking both buttstock and trigger; hence, they had to be held under the arm and could scarcely be aimed.

The first firearms appeared about 1325; they used a closed tube and black powder (now referred to as gunpowder) to propel a ball, somewhat erratically, over varying distances.

One of the first firearms surrendered was a Bushmaster AR-15, the make used by Adam Lanza in the Newtown shootings.

"Many of the new shooters attracted to tactical guns for their first firearms purchase will think that they know guns because they've played a lot of first-person shooter video games," the magazine said.

This weekend saw the return of the Great Las Vegas Gun Show, one of the first firearms shows in the city since it saw the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history.

"There's a tsunami of interest in states' rights and resistance to an overbearing federal government; that's what all these measures indicate," said Gary Marbut, the president of the Montana Shooting Sports Association, which led the drive last year for one of the first "firearms freedoms," laws like the ones signed last week in South Dakota and Wyoming.

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His first firearm was a Remington 12-gauge shotgun.

He purchased his first firearm from Gun City, among the biggest gun retailers in the country, the next month.

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The designs (and Youtube video) made by Texan law student and libertarian activist Cody Wilson, claim it is the first firearm that can be freely produced and assembled by anyone with a 3D printer.

Gun control activists have voiced fears that the world's first firearm made entirely with 3D printer technology was successfully fired, and the blueprint used to make it was made available online to download for free.

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