Sentence examples for handle a firearm from inspiring English sources

"Needless to say I'm not impressed with her ability to handle a firearm let alone aim it and hit".

"Mitt Romney is not a big-game hunter," he said, "but he knows how to handle a firearm".

After doing that more than ten thousand times, I believe that I could handle a firearm with the precision and accuracy of Chris Kyle, the American Sniper.

It is a set-up the Stone Age would have been proud of: girl looks great on magazine cover, but can she handle a firearm?

Mr. Johnston and the screenwriters, Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, clearly appreciate the snappy romantic chemistry of dames and fellas in the movies of the '40s, and they also accommodate the modern expectation that a woman in an action movie should be able to throw a punch and handle a firearm.

"The madman had guns, but even those with the training to handle a firearm could not stop him because they had been disarmed," Pearce added.

On the other hand, the report finds no proof that any of those who were subsequently shot dead or wounded were handling a firearm or a bomb, and some of them are wholly acquitted of any such action.

"There's continuing potential escalation between these alleged victims and [Tyson will remain in custody] … to help defuse this situation, but particularly because of the danger it presents to the community with a young 16-year-old handling a firearm," Judge Haworth said at Tyson's initial hearing on 8 April.

Pistorius was convicted on an unrelated firearms charge - negligently handling a firearm that went off in a crowded restaurant.

The athlete was also found guilty on a charge of negligently handling a firearm that went off in a restaurant.

Judge Thokozile Masipa said the athlete was guilty of negligently handling a firearm in a restaurant, but acquitted him of firing a gun from his car.