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- noun Plural form of
airgun .
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Examples
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Offences include any incident where the weapon, including airguns, is fired, used as a blunt instrument against a person, or used in a threat.
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At the time, Diebold's seniors, who included the famous oceanographer Maurice Ewing, had started designing and refining "airguns" that generated sound by releasing pulses of compressed air.
NYT > Home Page 2010
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Opponents also argued that the proposal was pre-empted by federal law excluding higher velocity airguns from color requirements.
The Center for Public Integrity: Fatal Texas shooting highlights struggle to regulate replica guns The Center for Public Integrity 2012
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A .177 is probably pretty marginal - usually the .177 airguns shooting at that velocity are competition types, which might have other issues as field-use airguns.
do you think an airgun that shoots about 600 fps is enough for squirrels? 2009
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A nephew is too, but can´t close his left eye, so he started shooting lefty, and he is doing just fine with airguns.
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Yet, these types of "airguns" are not firearms either, Wixon said, so they are not subject to government rules regulating real guns.
The Center for Public Integrity: Fatal Texas shooting highlights struggle to regulate replica guns The Center for Public Integrity 2012
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When I was a kid, it took 3 shots right into the vitals between me and my friend with similarly powered airguns to kill a squirrel.
do you think an airgun that shoots about 600 fps is enough for squirrels? 2009
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When I was a kid, it took 3 shots right into the vitals between me and my friend with similarly powered airguns to kill a squirrel.
do you think an airgun that shoots about 600 fps is enough for squirrels? 2009
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A .177 is probably pretty marginal - usually the .177 airguns shooting at that velocity are competition types, which might have other issues as field-use airguns.
do you think an airgun that shoots about 600 fps is enough for squirrels? 2009
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But while his guests might make use of the facilities or shoot lumps out of each other with pump-action airguns, Ellison prefers to sit and work on beats.
Two nights in the life of Brainfeeder, LA's low end high-flyers 2011
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