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six-gun
noun
A revolver with a cylinder that holds six bullets.
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Typical was this from a commenter named ElliottB: "Some rob you with a six-gun (and get serious jail time).
Dad was in full regalia: Stetson hat, leather vest, cowboy boots, and — this was new — a six-gun.
Comprehensive investigations — not a "six-gun approach" — are Mexico's only hope of bringing down these sophisticated networks of organized crime.
But the truth is that his six-gun approach to fighting organized crime and police corruption has made space for real security improvements.
A line from Woody Guthrie's song "Pretty Boy Floyd" offers a hint: "Some will rob you with a six-gun, and some with a fountain pen".
"Don't come back when you can't farm with a six-gun," an angry Cole warns Jesse, who wants to go off to marry Zee Ali Larterr).
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The shooting, alarming for its callousness, is the 21st gun attack in Salford in 18 months.
It was the 14th gun-related death connected to drug gangs in Marseille since the start of this year, the 19th in the region.
The French government is under growing pressure to contain Marseille's deadly drug wars after the 19th gun-related death in the region this year.
By the 9th guns had been emplaced on the first parallel, and began firing on the entrenched British camp.
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