handgun

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a handgun with magazine and ammunition

Etymology

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From hand +‎ gun.

Noun

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handgun (plural handguns)

  1. A small gun with a relatively short barrel, designed to be held and operated with a single hand.
    • 2009 January 13, M. R. Kropko, “Video-game addiction rejected as defence”, in Toronto Star[1]:
      Petric used his father's key to open a lockbox and remove a 9mm handgun and the game.
    • 2013, Tom Diaz, The Last Gun: How Changes in the Gun Industry are Killing Americans and what it Will Take to Stop it, page 166:
      A related design and marketing innovation has been the sale to civilians of “vest busters,” handguns specifically designed to penetrate body armor.

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