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On October 19, CIA headquarters sent the station six untraceable submachine guns and ammunition in a diplomatic pouch, to be provided to the plotters.
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Peter Kornbluh, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2014
Satwant Singh, another bodyguard, fired 30 rounds from his submachine gun.
—Breana Scheckwitz, Fox News, 22 May 2024
Of that, roughly $22 million was offensive weapons, including 3,000 portable antitank weapons and 500,000 rounds of ammunition for machine guns, submachine guns, or other fully automatic or semiautomatic firearms.
—Cate Brown, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2024
When modeling a new product, like a U.S. Navy blue jumpsuit, Mr. McGrath may grab his personal plate carrier filled with magazines and a replica World War II British Sten submachine gun.
—Charles W. McFarlane, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
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Peter Kornbluh, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2014
Satwant Singh, another bodyguard, fired 30 rounds from his submachine gun.
—Breana Scheckwitz, Fox News, 22 May 2024
Of that, roughly $22 million was offensive weapons, including 3,000 portable antitank weapons and 500,000 rounds of ammunition for machine guns, submachine guns, or other fully automatic or semiautomatic firearms.
—Cate Brown, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2024
When modeling a new product, like a U.S. Navy blue jumpsuit, Mr. McGrath may grab his personal plate carrier filled with magazines and a replica World War II British Sten submachine gun.
—Charles W. McFarlane, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
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Young Thug, one of six defendants standing trial, is also charged with possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, possession of codeine with intent to distribute, possession of cocaine, possession of a firearm, and possession of a machine gun.Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 31 Oct. 2024
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To compete players can arm themselves with a range of firearms including machine guns, assault rifles and shotguns.Nina Turner, Newsweek, 29 Oct. 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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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
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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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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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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
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Emboldened by legal immunity, some manufacturers aggressively marketed assault weapons like the AR-15.Corey G. Johnson, ProPublica, 24 Oct. 2024
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“Submachine gun.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/submachine%20gun. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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