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Recent Examples of machine gun
Marquise Francis, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2024
Someone serving in a machine gun battalion must have been in the thick of the action.
—Mary Ann Ashcraft, Baltimore Sun, 9 Nov. 2024
San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2023
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Noun
Police arrested 25-year-old Jaquez Myrick of Montgomery and charged him with possession of a machine gun, the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency said in a news release.
—Marquise Francis, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2024
Someone serving in a machine gun battalion must have been in the thick of the action.
—Mary Ann Ashcraft, Baltimore Sun, 9 Nov. 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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Rock’s talent includes shooting down German plans with a single submachine gun and tossing grenades with great accuracy.Justin Kroll, Deadline, 20 Nov. 2024
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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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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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Meanwhile, one Colombian and one Mexican man were found and detained unharmed at the scene, and the defense department said officers found a pistol and several magazines commonly used for assault rifles at the scene.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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Twenty years ago, on September 27, 2004, the front section of the New York Times included a story about John Kerry, then the Democratic nominee for President, and a Chinese assault rifle.Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2024
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Al Shahabi also asked on Facebook where the recordings of surveillance cameras at regime security branches had gone, why some documents had been destroyed and why human rights groups had not done more to protect records.Raja Razek, CNN, 16 Dec. 2024
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Shacks and buildings were left completely destroyed when the cyclone struck the nation hampered by poverty.Kinsey Crowley, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2024
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Advertisement California Police fatally shoot man spotted roaming through Carmel-by-the-Sea streets with assault weapon Oct. 25, 2024 The grandson armed himself with an AR-15 and began searching for the suspects on a golf cart, authorities said.Sandra McDonald, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024
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Within weeks, two congressional bills proposed raising the federal minimum age to buy an assault weapon from 18 to 21.Corey G. Johnson, ProPublica, 24 Oct. 2024
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Since the war began, Israeli strikes have killed around 700 people tasked with protecting the trucks, according to local officials.Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2024
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Israel has killed many of Hezbollah's top leaders and destroyed its headquarters in Beirut's southern suburbs.Lauren Frayer, NPR, 13 Dec. 2024
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Sullivan said the district court showed commercially available civilian semi-automatic rifles are not military grade.Greg Bishop | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 8 Dec. 2024
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King changed his long-standing opposition to gun restrictions after the mass shooting and filed a bill that would have raised the age to purchase AR-15 style semiautomatic rifles from 18 to 21 years of age.Bayliss Wagner, Austin American-Statesman, 6 Dec. 2024
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“Machine gun.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/machine%20gun. Accessed 23 Dec. 2024.
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