“Well, the point is to use that handgun to procure a rifle before the Army shows up, don’t you think?”
Use the handgun against whom to get whose rifle? He has a rifle. You have a handgun. He wins - unless you murder him in cold blood.
Call it that if you will. But, yes, relieve an agent of your oppressor of his rifle, shotgun, communications, whatever is better than your pistol or useful against them. Preferably when he least expects it.