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• n  a firearm that is held and fired with one hand

• He used a handgun to kill himself in his apartment.
• Lightweight at six ounces, it's got a balanced heft you might associate with a well-made handgun.
• A customer samples a handgun at a shop in Glendale, Calif.

• pistol
• side arm
• shooting iron

News & Articles

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• Cops and Courts, June 22, 2013: Assault rifle, handgun seized from gun brandishing suspect
  Police seized an assault rifle and a handgun from a 26-year-old Watsonville man early Friday morning after he was suspected of brandishing a gun at a group of people.
  June 22, 2013 - Santa Cruz Sentinel
• Lorain Man Pulls Loaded Handgun on Trooper
  TOLEDO, Ohio — The Ohio State Highway Patrol is looking for a man who pulled a loaded handgun on a...
  June 21, 2013 - FOX 8 Cleveland
• Handgun mistaken for a BB gun
  In Lancaster County, at the Stone-hill Apartments on Stonemill road, Police received a call about a man running around with an apparent handgun. After searching the area when police arrived they located Nicholas Sapone, 18, holding what looked like a …
  June 19, 2013 - FOX 43 Harrisburg

Quotes

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• Samuel Alito in WireUpdate
  In Heller, we held that the Second Amendment protects the right to possess a handgun in the home for the purpose of self-defense,Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the ruling. "Unless considerations of stare decisis counsel otherwise, a...
• Adrian Fenty in FOXNews
  The Constitution leaves the District of Columbia a variety of tools for combating [handgun violence], including some measures regulating handguns : [b]ut the enshrinement of constitutional rights necessarily takes certain policy choices off the... Antonin Scalia http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonin_Scalia&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEEHFsq01t19pfPD89FYst0ejm6uA Mineral Wells Index http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.mineralwellsindex.com/local/local_story_179091041.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEiZKAr4KHkKkLThL0FrjiUSEET7w Jun 27, 2008 45196 61713 handgun Washington's Mayor Adrian Fenty similarly warned: More handguns in the District of Columbia will only lead to more handgun violence."