"shooting iron" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1895, G. A. Henty, chapter 15, in In the Heart Of The Rockies:",
          "text": "\"It ain't the rifle, Harry,\" Sam said good-temperedly; \"it is the eye that is wrong, not the shooting-iron.\"",
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          "ref": "1899 September – 1900 July, Joseph Conrad, chapter XXV, in Lord Jim: A Tale, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1900, →OCLC, page 267:",
          "text": "Look like a fool walking about with an empty shooting-iron in my hand.",
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        {
          "ref": "1900, Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, page xxv. 183:",
          "text": "\"Look like a damn fool walking about with an empty shooting-iron in my hand.\"",
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        {
          "ref": "1943 June 14, Cheap Firepower:",
          "text": "The U.S. Army's newest war tool, the M-3 submachine gun, unveiled last week. [...] a stark, crude, unlovely shooting iron.",
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        "A firearm, especially a handgun."
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          "firearm",
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        "(chiefly US, colloquial, dated) A firearm, especially a handgun."
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          "word": "shooting-iron"
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          "roman": "ognestrelno orǎžie",
          "sense": "firearm",
          "word": "огнестрелно оръжие"
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          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "firearm",
          "word": "paukkurauta"
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          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "firearm",
          "word": "reikärauta"
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          "sense": "firearm",
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            "neuter"
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          "word": "Schießeisen"
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          "sense": "firearm",
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            "neuter"
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          "word": "skjutjärn"
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          "text": "\"Look like a damn fool walking about with an empty shooting-iron in my hand.\"",
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        },
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        "(chiefly US, colloquial, dated) A firearm, especially a handgun."
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      "roman": "ognestrelno orǎžie",
      "sense": "firearm",
      "word": "огнестрелно оръжие"
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      "sense": "firearm",
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  "word": "shooting iron"
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