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Recent Examples of assault rifle
He was arrested after a loaded AK-47 assault rifle was found in his backseat.
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Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 19 Mar. 2025
In 2019, a twenty-one-year-old from a small town outside Dallas had travelled to a Walmart in El Paso and opened fire with a semi-automatic assault rifle, killing twenty-three shoppers.
—Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
The 24-year-old was hanging out with a fellow fighter, Abu Hamza, 25, in the central park of the city of Hama, lending his assault rifle to local youths to pose with it for photographs.
—Carlotta Gall, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2025
The suspect was killed after allegedly opening fire on police officers with an assault rifle.
—Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 1 Jan. 2025
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Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 19 Mar. 2025
In 2019, a twenty-one-year-old from a small town outside Dallas had travelled to a Walmart in El Paso and opened fire with a semi-automatic assault rifle, killing twenty-three shoppers.
—Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
The 24-year-old was hanging out with a fellow fighter, Abu Hamza, 25, in the central park of the city of Hama, lending his assault rifle to local youths to pose with it for photographs.
—Carlotta Gall, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2025
The suspect was killed after allegedly opening fire on police officers with an assault rifle.
—Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 1 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for assault rifle
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He was booked on charges including possession of an assault weapon, manufacturing guns with a 3D printer and possession of a silencer, according to police.—
Jason Green,
Mercury News,
6 Apr. 2025
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Diaz’s associates reportedly then took the weapons, including assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, and sold them throughout Connecticut.—
Staff report,
Hartford Courant,
5 Feb. 2025
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In Weekend 2 So Ukraine has relied more on 900 mobile defence units, mainly armed with anti-aircraft cannon and machine guns mounted on a variety of vehicles.—
David Hambling,
Forbes.com,
11 Apr. 2025
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The Ukrainian Navy patrol boat zipped across the Black Sea, its double-barreled, 25-millimeter machine gun locked on the horizon.—
Constant Méheut,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 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
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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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After speeches by longtime colleagues (the F.B.I. director, Christopher Wray, presented him with a replica tommy gun), Garland spoke.—
Fabio Bertoni,
The New Yorker,
17 Jan. 2025
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Gauging from the trailer, this grisly period piece appears to be set in the South with Jordan starring in a dual role as a pair of twins, at least one of whom gets to spray bullets with a retro tommy gun.—
Meredith Blake,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Jan. 2025
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Lawmakers raised the rifle buying age to 21 in 2018 after the Parkland shooting.—
Romy Ellenbogen,
Miami Herald,
18 Apr. 2025
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Former Attorney General Merrick Garland said in October that the Justice Department foiled the plot as the men bought the rifles from an undercover FBI employee.—
Krystal Nurse,
USA Today,
18 Apr. 2025
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“Assault rifle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assault%20rifle. Accessed 28 Apr. 2025.
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