The word 'gunmen' is correct and usable in written English.
It is often used to refer to individuals who are armed with guns, especially in the context of crime, warfare, or law enforcement. Example: The police issued a warning to the public to be cautious of armed gunmen in the area.
Colum Eastwood, a local member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for the nationalist SDLP, described the gunmen as "cowards" and praised the actions of the driver.
With thousands of angry refugees stranded on the desert highway, and pro-Gaddafi gunmen still resisting inside the town, Libya's government has been left flat-footed by a crisis fast turning into its worst nightmare.
The gunmen seized Hajja while she was picking corn in a field near her home in a small village in north-eastern Nigeria in July 2013.
Among them were her best friends Hauwa, Saratu and Monica, who had been too scared to run when the gunmen burst in and began rounding up the girls.
Minutes earlier two vehicles had screeched up outside the front of Westgate and a dozen gunmen, and at least one woman, jumped out.
Eight people died at the funeral when unidentified gunmen opened fire on mourners.
A Twitter account that posted about a Texas attack minutes before gunmen opened fire on a security guard at a "draw the prophet Muhammad" competition exhibition in a Dallas suburb has been suspended.
Twelve people were murdered by gunmen at the magazine's offices earlier this year, and PEN's American branch has said that it "deserves to be recognised for its dauntlessness in the face of one of the most noxious assaults on expression in recent memory".
The first edition of Charlie Hebdo since nine members of staff were murdered by terrorist gunmen last week appears to turn the other cheek.
Late on Tuesday, Boko Haram gunmen also stormed through two settlements near Chibok, the village where the schoolgirls were kidnapped last month.
On the second floor Joshua Hakim, who had stopped for a snack on his way to watch a rugby match, saw gunmen, some of whom looked to be teenagers, strapped with ammunition belts, carrying AK-47 assault rifles.
