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Recent Examples of submachine gun
One casing is a 9mm caliber, likely a pistol, or a machine pistol or a submachine gun, Weir said.
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Mohammad Al Sawalhi, CNN, 26 June 2024
On October 19, CIA headquarters sent the station six untraceable submachine guns and ammunition in a diplomatic pouch, to be provided to the plotters.
—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
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Mohammad Al Sawalhi, CNN, 26 June 2024
On October 19, CIA headquarters sent the station six untraceable submachine guns and ammunition in a diplomatic pouch, to be provided to the plotters.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for submachine gun
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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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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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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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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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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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“Submachine gun.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/submachine%20gun. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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