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Jared Keller, WIRED, 4 Oct. 2024
Mill workers manufactured electrical harnesses used for assembly at the Willow Run plant for B-24 bombers and, among other items, electrical wiring for the M7 machine gun director.
—Kristi Tanner, Detroit Free Press, 19 Sep. 2024
San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2023
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More recently, Ukrainian troops have used PlayStation controllers and Steam Decks to direct armed unmanned drones and machine gun turrets against invading Russian forces.
—Jared Keller, WIRED, 4 Oct. 2024
Mill workers manufactured electrical harnesses used for assembly at the Willow Run plant for B-24 bombers and, among other items, electrical wiring for the M7 machine gun director.
—Kristi Tanner, Detroit Free Press, 19 Sep. 2024
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As someone who grew up in the Dodgers’ family and now can’t stand the sight of them, who wants to beat them as Buddy Rich might machine-gun his snare drum.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2023
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One casing is a 9mm caliber, likely a pistol, or a machine pistol or a submachine gun, Weir said.Mohammad Al Sawalhi, CNN, 26 June 2024
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Prosecutors said police found two weapons in the getaway car when the men were detained on a highway about 50 kilometers (30 miles) outside Amsterdam, a Heckler and Koch machine pistol and, in a Louis Vuitton bag, a blank-firing pistol that had been modified to take 9-millimeter rounds.MIKE CORDER, ajc, 18 Oct. 2021
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Police also found 89 firearms, including handguns, submachine guns and AR-15-style rifles, as well as small explosive devices, large quantities of ammunition, silencers, high-capacity magazines, body armor and $500,000 in Canadian, equivalent to roughly $360,000 in US dollars.Max Hauptman, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2024
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Hernandez said detectives seized a fully automatic submachine gun, ammunition and evidence related to the crimes.Jason Green, The Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2024
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Guy comes up, holding a tommy gun.George Saunders, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2020
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That applies to all the dialogue, which doesn’t change at all from character to character, each of them firing off pop culture references like a tommy gun.Joshua Alston, Variety, 11 Jan. 2023
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What appeared to be a replica of an assault rifle is affixed to the hood of the vehicle, which has a Trump sign on the front.Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 1 Nov. 2024
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Officials said Colt Gray rode the school bus to Apalachee High School carrying a semiautomatic assault rifle hidden in his backpack.CBS News, CBS News, 12 Sep. 2024
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Approximately 40 firefighters responded to the blaze, which was first reported at 11:43 a.m., destroyed one building, damaged at least three others, and downed utility wires along 17th Street.Ryan Macasero, The Mercury News, 10 Nov. 2024
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The fire destroyed an apartment building near Ammons Street and West 12th Avenue, killing two cats and displacing four people, according to West Metro Fire Rescue.Katie Langford, The Denver Post, 8 Nov. 2024
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Zoom in: Serrano's clients include Guardian Arms, a Moses Lake gun shop seeking to overturn Washington's ban on selling dozens of firearms that the state now defines as assault weapons.Melissa Santos, Axios, 9 Sep. 2024
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Vance and Trump oppose most gun-control laws, including an assault weapons ban and national red-flag laws proposed by Harris.Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 26 Oct. 2024
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Finally, as is obvious to most observers, Israel cannot kill its way out of the threat posed by Hamas and other armed Palestinian factions.John Spencer, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2024
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The version of the virus detected in San Mateo County lies at the center of an outbreak that has killed more than 1,000 people this year in Central and Eastern Africa, with most of those cases being in the Democratic Republic of Congo.Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 17 Nov. 2024
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Find the nearest rest and ready your rifle, a buck is apt to roll up out of there next.Michael Hanback, Outdoor Life, 7 Nov. 2024
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Last week, Trump suggested that rifles should be trained on former Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., who has endorsed Harris and become one of the former president's most vocal GOP critics.Karissa Waddick, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2024
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“Machine gun.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/machine%20gun. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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