1.   As the tinny pinging made clear, the weapons were pellet guns, and the hogs were paper swine targets.

2.   A few weeks ago, friends said, he was in a car with two others and one shot a pellet gun at a teen-ager walking down the street.

3.   Alarmed by the pellet gun, a neighbor across the street called police.

4.   During summer days, these boys would take pellet guns into the field, searching for cottontails and blue jays.

5.   First, the two men shot at her with a pellet gun and a pistol-grip crossbow.

6.   He keeps and bears a pellet gun.

7.   He said Huang, who was holding the pellet gun, dropped it right away, but police still grabbed him and pinned him against a glass door.

8.   He said he used a pellet gun to commit the crimes.

9.   In Ronkonkoma, N.Y., a man was arrested for waving a pellet gun and shouting obscenities at a South Asian gas station worker.

10.   Leedom quietly excused himself and immediately returned with a pellet gun.