Synonyms for pistol
ˈpɪs tlpis·tol

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1. pistol, handgun, side arm, shooting ironnoun

   a firearm that is held and fired with one hand

   Synonyms:
   side arm, shooting iron, handgun

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1. List of paraphrases for "pistol":

   gun, handgun, revolver, gunpoint, weapon, sidearm, shotgun, pistol-like-object

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1. Jerry Boykin:

   The shooter, Floyd Corkins, came into our building armed with a 9 mm pistol, two ammunition clips of 15 rounds in his front pocket, the rounds in the gun, and a box of 50 additional rounds, he also had 15 individually wrapped Chick-fil-A sandwiches. He was not puffing things up when he told the investigators that he intended ‘to kill as many people as [he] could.’ He shot our building manager, Leo Johnson, shattering the major bones of his left arm. Even after taking a bullet, Leo heroically tackled the shooter putting a stop to what would have been a mass murder. Corkins was later convicted of domestic terrorism in Washington, D.C.

2. Nayeem Hasan:

   It was the responsibility of the Civil Aviation Authority to search each passenger before boarding and it was done for this aircraft also, but it is a big question to us that how he boarded with a pistol, now we are focusing on two issues – his background and identity and the security aspect that how he boarded with a pistol.

3. The Case:

   Old associates of the housepainter/alleged serial killer claim that, a few years prior to Poste’s 2018 death at 80, he had quietly given away his weapons, pistol parts, gunpowder, bullets and shell casings – more than a thousand, involving 25 different calibers – to his favorite locals, and most of these peculiar ‘gifts’ have remained in basements and closets, untouched, ever since.

4. Jennifer Sain:

   Do I want to suffer or do I just want to get it done with. And at one point I was reaching for my pistol, asking the Lord for forgiveness.

5. Association President Tom King:

   We decided that we were going to try to change that and make sure that New York state residents who want a pistol permit or a concealed carry permit are given the same protections under the law that everybody else in the other 42 states are given.