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Recent Examples of AK-47
Brown said he was armed with an AK-47 and Carter was carrying a 12-gauge shotgun.
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Brittany Wallman, Miami Herald, 2 Jan. 2025
In the July attempt on Trump’s life in Butler, Penn., the would-be assassin, armed with an AK-47, was killed by a member of Trump’s security detail.
—Steven Gaydos, Variety, 19 Dec. 2024
So how often are handguns used in school shootings compared to assault-style rifles like the AR-15 or AK-47?
—John Diedrich, Journal Sentinel, 18 Dec. 2024
These are people who woke up one Saturday morning and were soon dodging bullets and grenades, cradling the dead bodies of their husbands and daughters, kneeling before AK-47s and begging to be spared.
—Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2024
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Brittany Wallman, Miami Herald, 2 Jan. 2025
In the July attempt on Trump’s life in Butler, Penn., the would-be assassin, armed with an AK-47, was killed by a member of Trump’s security detail.
—Steven Gaydos, Variety, 19 Dec. 2024
So how often are handguns used in school shootings compared to assault-style rifles like the AR-15 or AK-47?
—John Diedrich, Journal Sentinel, 18 Dec. 2024
These are people who woke up one Saturday morning and were soon dodging bullets and grenades, cradling the dead bodies of their husbands and daughters, kneeling before AK-47s and begging to be spared.
—Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for AK-47
Noun
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Rust's grandson, Lucas (portrayed by 15-year-old Patrick Scott McDermott) is also seen carrying a rifle several times in the teaser.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 Mar. 2025
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Two high-level investigations found Oswald fired three shots from a sixth-floor window of the Texas School Book Depository using an Italian Mannlicher-Carcano 6.5-millimeter rifle.—
Josh Meyer,
USA TODAY,
21 Mar. 2025
Noun
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In an interview with police, a family member said that Luke Howard had a 10mm Hi-Point carbine rifle and a 10mm glock handgun, court records said.—
Kendrick Calfee,
Kansas City Star,
13 Feb. 2025
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So, please, don't shoot my eye out with an official Red Ryder, carbine action, 200-shot range model air rifle!—
Chris Nashawaty,
EW.com,
11 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Titans head coach Brian Callahan worked with Joe Burrow, who likes to play out of shotgun and brilliantly balances in-structure play and out-of-structure play.—
Ted Nguyen,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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The sheriff shared a photo of the gun, which appears to be an antique single-shot pistol chambered to fire .410 shotgun shells.—
Mitchell Willetts,
Kansas City Star,
26 Mar. 2025
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The shootings, one of which involved a machine gun, were carried out by Peña and co-defendants Demetrio Trujillo, 43, and his son, Jose Trujillo, 24, according to federal prosecutors.—
Deon J. Hampton,
NBC News,
20 Mar. 2025
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The weapons charges included allegations that Peña fired a machine gun in relation to a crime of violence.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
19 Mar. 2025
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Rock’s talent includes shooting down German fighter planes with a single submachine gun and tossing grenades with great accuracy.—
Justin Kroll,
Deadline,
17 Mar. 2025
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Budweiser factories received bomb threats, customers boycotted the beer, and MAGA musician Kid Rock filmed himself shooting up 12-packs with a submachine gun, tears in his eyes.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
26 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Some key finds were a 4,500-year-old projectile point, animal bones in fireplaces that revealed the soldiers’ diet, and lead drippings from a task usually assigned to the women of the encampments: pouring lead into molds to create musket balls.—
Pamela Brown,
Hartford Courant,
18 Mar. 2025
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The musket ball was finally removed 17 years after Miller was wounded.—
Doug Ross,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Beretta traces its history to 1526, when Bartolomeo Beretta (d. 1565), a rifle barrel maker in the small northern Italian town of Gardone, sold 185 arquebus barrels—a handheld long gun and a forerunner to the modern rifle—to the Republic of Venice.—
Giacomo Tognini,
Forbes,
25 Mar. 2025
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The worshipers insisted on congregating to pray at the crucifix in the local church and threatened to shoot with an arquebus – a long gun used during the Renaissance period – anyone who got in their way.—
Hannah Marcus,
The Conversation,
25 Sep. 2020
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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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“AK-47.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/AK-47. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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