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Recent Examples of assault rifle
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.
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Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 1 Nov. 2024
Officials said Colt Gray rode the school bus to Apalachee High School carrying a semiautomatic assault rifle hidden in his backpack.
—CBS News, 12 Sep. 2024
Six men, some wearing hoodies, others carrying pistols and another carrying what appeared to be an assault rifle, walked up the stairs of an apartment building.
—Ignacio Calderon, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2024
No one does high-performance yelling like Saldana; no one looks better with wraparound shades and an assault rifle.
—Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2024
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Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 1 Nov. 2024
Officials said Colt Gray rode the school bus to Apalachee High School carrying a semiautomatic assault rifle hidden in his backpack.
—CBS News, 12 Sep. 2024
Six men, some wearing hoodies, others carrying pistols and another carrying what appeared to be an assault rifle, walked up the stairs of an apartment building.
—Ignacio Calderon, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2024
No one does high-performance yelling like Saldana; no one looks better with wraparound shades and an assault rifle.
—Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 25 Oct. 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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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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The Ventura County Sheriff’s Department has arrested two teenagers and a 45-year-old man on suspicion of manufacturing unregistered handguns and automatic rifles.Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2024
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In the second assassination attempt in West Palm Beach, authorities said Ryan Wesley Routh was captured after a Secret Service agent saw the barrel of a rifle poking out from trees.Alexx Altman-Devilbiss, Baltimore Sun, 27 Nov. 2024
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“Assault rifle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assault%20rifle. Accessed 16 Dec. 2024.
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