Firearm in a sentence as a noun

What concerns me is that 90%+ of the time there's no crime being committed, save for discharging a firearm.

People do realise that improvised firearms are actually nothing new right?

Zero; a firearm has neither agency nor volition.

So there's all these thousands of "criminals" discharging firearms that haven't been arrested before but could be now.

Same for any metal tube that's threaded or otherwise easily attached to a firearm barrel.

These should be tried in most situations before going to a firearm, but if a suspect charges an officer with a knife there isn't time to wait and see.

The private manufacturing of a firearm is not considered illegal, as long as you do not sell that firearm that you have created.

So there's all these thousands of "criminals" discharging firearms that haven't been arrested before but could be now. Yay?Are you really arguing that discharging firearms is a victimless crime?

You can already buy all the CNC mills and lathes and other machine tools that you have space and money for, and use them to manufacture firearms if you want to.

The question, in order to be sensible, would have to be one of how many people were killed, by other people, who used a firearm of Gospodin Kalashnikov's design to do so.

Meanwhile, in America, not only is there no national tracking of firearm discharges -- there's no national tracking of how many people are killed by police.

He was not detained because he had an explosive or firearm, he was detained because he was subject to a different level of scrutiny than the other passengers who went through the scanner.

The fact he was a drug addict who needed help, the fact he had nobody to turn to for help, the fact he obtained access to an illegal firearm or the fact that he played a lot of Grand Theft Auto?

The race part comes in when the AG has chosen not to charge a white teenager who accidentally killed someone with a gun not so long ago. Both were accidnets, just that one resulted in someone dying by illegally handling a firearm and the other was a student experimenting at school with a science project.

Right now, as an individual, you can manufacture and posses any firearm that meets the legal definition of a pistol, rifle, or shotgun with no licenses at all, unless prohibited by state laws.

In any case, the legal question has nothing to do with how reliable the resulting firearm is; only whether it meets certain vague and broadly-interpreted legal definitions.

In this case, charges against the 3D printer operator would likely be unlawful manufacture of a firearm, possibly in addition to charges related to interstate transfer of a firearm.

I think what a lot of black people are thinking is what if the roles were reversed and she accidentally killed someone with a firearm?I agree that we should try and keep this not focused on race but most people are thinking about it and it is rational to assume that it may play a part.

Firearm definitions

noun

a portable gun; "he wore his firearm in a shoulder holster"

See also: piece small-arm