1. The men were armed with sawn-off shotguns.

2. The robbers were armed with sawn-off shotguns .

3. The raiders were armed with sawn-off shotguns.

4. Alan Barnett, 28, was blasted with a sawn-off shotgun in Oldham on Thursday.

5. The men burst in wearing balaclavas and brandishing sawn-off shotguns.

6. He is further charged with possessing a sawn-off shotgun.

7. Under the coat was a sawn-off shotgun and he fired.

8. A sawn-off shotgun was seized and a man was arrested.

9. Two sawn-off shotguns were found nearby, and detectives are making an urgent appeal for information.

10. Or course the sawn-off shotgun he was reloading was a bit of a giveaway, though.

11. Five raiders armed with sawn-off shotguns, rifles and machetes stole more than ￡10,000 from Dry, part of the Factory empire.

12. Moat then raised the sawn-off double-barrelled shotgun and shot Mr Brown in the chest.

13. Then, waving his sawn-off shotgun, he chases the switchblade-wielding hitman down his hallway and out into the street.

14. The court heard there were four men in the gang, all wearing balaclava helmets and armed with two sawn-off shotguns.

15. The family's ordeal began when the men burst into their Colchester bungalow, wearing balaclavas and brandishing sawn-off shotguns.

16. There, they will spy boys in tight, pink jeans and girls with errant bum cheeks flopping loose from sawn-off denim shorts.

17. Perowne notes three rings on the index, middle, and ring fingers, bands of gold as broad as sawn-off plumbing.

1. The men were armed with sawn-off shotguns.