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Recent Examples of assault weapon
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.
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Melissa Santos, Axios, 9 Sep. 2024
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
Emboldened by legal immunity, some manufacturers aggressively marketed assault weapons like the AR-15.
—Corey G. Johnson, ProPublica, 24 Oct. 2024
If Republicans control the House or the Senate — or both — after the election, Congress probably would not pass an assault weapons ban.
—Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
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Melissa Santos, Axios, 9 Sep. 2024
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
Emboldened by legal immunity, some manufacturers aggressively marketed assault weapons like the AR-15.
—Corey G. Johnson, ProPublica, 24 Oct. 2024
If Republicans control the House or the Senate — or both — after the election, Congress probably would not pass an assault weapons ban.
—Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for assault weapon
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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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Jordan began serving in a machine gun battalion, but ended in an ordnance detachment.Mary Ann Ashcraft, Baltimore Sun, 9 Nov. 2024
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At the time of the indictment, Dukes was locked up in Dupage County, Ill., for another episode involving a machine gun in a car, according to prosecutors.John Annese, New York Daily News, 7 Nov. 2024
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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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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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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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“Assault weapon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assault%20weapon. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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