Sentence examples for shotguns from inspiring English sources

"The vigilantes use shotguns and cartridges and have been short in supply, so the leader left yesterday for Maiduguri to procure more in the event of any attack," he told AFP. "But Boko Haram launched the attack while he was still in Maiduguri.

The surveillance of five of Scotland's 10 hunts suggests that they are routinely behaving as they did before the ban, with a complete absence of shotguns.

After some responded angrily, police moved in with tear gas and shotguns; one student has died.

AT least some anxious parents can put away their shotguns.

Despite millions of dollars of biographical advertising, and a willingness to pose for cameras with shotguns, he is still widely seen as an aloof Boston Brahmin.Neither his friends nor his campaign style have provided clues to his personality.

Sawn-off shotguns were used in just 201 robberies last year a third the figure of a decade ago while almost 3,841 jobs were done with handguns.Roger Matthews, professor of criminology at Middlesex University, says that armed robbery is becoming Americanised, both in the sense that Britain is moving towards late-night convenience store robberies, and also in the sense that anyone can do it.

The last time the Supreme Court looked at the second amendment (in 1939), it ruled that the government could make sawn-off shotguns illegal on the ground that there was "no reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well-regulated militia".

Not, it seems, against the Waorani (who as a "recently contacted" tribe do not enjoy similar protection).On March 24th a band of Waorani, armed with shotguns, carbines and spears, set out from the hamlets of Dikaro and Yarentaro.

A series of other acquisitions in Finland, Turkey and China expanded its range of rifles and shotguns.

In both instances, householders fired shotguns at burglars.

Shotguns fired by some of the thugs can be heard above yells and screams.