Sentence examples for outbreak of firearms from inspiring English sources

The study defined a mass shooting as an outbreak of firearms violence in which four or more victims were killed and the shooter was unknown to most of his victims.

Defining mass shootings as outbreaks of firearms violence in which four or more victims were killed and the shooter was unknown to most of his victims, researchers from Harvard University's School of Public Health and Northeastern University found that, in the roughly two-year period that ended in September 2013, a mass shooting occurred on average every 64 days.

The vast majority of people and politicians who oppose reasonable regulation of firearms as a means of minimizing gunshot-wound outbreaks are not themselves particularly at risk and probably have never seen a person with an untreated gunshot wound.

At the outbreak of the American Civil War he devoted himself at once to the perfecting of firearms.

Despite sporadic outbreaks of gun violence, Japan's yakuza crime syndicates are reluctant to build up caches of firearms.

2. A perverse fetishization of firearms.

"Reducing the number of firearms in the community – particularly illegal firearms – does reduce the potential for firearm deaths.

A French national was arrested on suspicion of firearms offences.

He liked the pop-pop backyard elation of firearms.

Meanwhile, the improvement of firearms caused armour to be discarded.

Connecticut is the nation's seventh-largest maker of firearms.