How to say "gunman" in Japanese

• 銃撃犯じゅうげきはん
  nounCovers 'gunman' in the sense of someone who carries out a shooting — the shooter in an attack or crime. Note that it is a less common way to express this sense in Japanese.
• ガンマン
  nounLoanword for a gunfighter or gunslinger, especially in the American Old West; its 'gunman' sense belongs to that setting. For the perpetrator of a shooting, this is seldom the word you want.

Use 銃撃犯 for a gunman in the sense of the perpetrator of a shooting; 「ガンマン」 is for the gunfighter or gunslinger of the American Old West, and is not the word for a criminal shooter.

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• 銃撃犯じゅうげきはんgunman
• ガンマンgunfighter (esp. in the American Old West)