Sentence examples for french firearms from inspiring English sources

Verney-Carron, the French firearms company, began making bicycles and fishing and tennis equipment in the late 1930's, enabling it to make it through World War II.

Investigators seized several explosive devices and dozens of detonators, along with false identity papers and license plates and stolen French firearms.

So it was that a humble workman's van, acting as an improvised Trojan horse, ferried a heavily armed French tactical firearms team past the security cameras and into the heart of the fugitive banker Mukhtar Ablyazov's secret bolthole in the south of France.

The French tightly controlled the firearms trade with their Huron allies, putting the latter at a tremendous disadvantage.

The Natchez then began to prepare for a strike on the French at Fort Rosalie, borrowing firearms from some French colonists with promises to go hunting and to share the game with the guns' owners.

Was I taking my medicine like I was supposed to?' I said, 'Yes, sir.' " Across the country, states are increasingly allowing people like Mr. French, who lost their firearm rights because of mental illness, to petition to have them restored.

In 2010 the French authorities revealed seizures of firearms had soared by 79%, with 2,710 weapons recovered.

The French soldiers were equipped with firearms, and steel blades.

The Malagasy nationalists were mostly equipped with spears and had little protection from the firearms of the French military.

The first battles actually to be decided by firearms were fought between French and Spanish troops on Italian soil early in the 16th century; these included Marignano (1515), Bicocca (1522), and, above all, Pavia (1525).

A French national was arrested on suspicion of firearms offences.