slugthrower

plural slugthrowers

1. literatureA firearm that fires bullets.

   Each had a holstered sidearm: slugthrower, not stunner.

   1978, Poul Anderson, The Avatar, New York: Berkley, →ISBN, →OL, page 162

   2 more examples

   He had been pulling the trigger of his slugthrower all this time, but now the firing pin clicked at last upon an empty firing chamber.

   1965 December, Gordon R. Dickson, “Warrior”, in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, volume 76, →ISSN, page 71

   From the confident manner with which she held her long-barreled slugthrower, Mirina guessed that some of the medals were for marksmanship.

   1996, Jody Lynn Nye, The Ship Errant, Baen, →ISBN, →OL, page 65