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Vikram Mittal, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
Ivan imagined it from his perspective — big guys with machine guns sauntering down the street.
—Sarah A. Topol, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2024
San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2023
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Noun
The combination of electronic warfare and the 35mm machine guns provides a resilient system capable of countering a wide range of threats.
—Vikram Mittal, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
Ivan imagined it from his perspective — big guys with machine guns sauntering down the street.
—Sarah A. Topol, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2024
Verb
As someone who grew up in the Dodgers’ family and now can’t stand the sight of them, who wants to beat them as Buddy Rich might machine-gun his snare drum.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2023
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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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Hernandez said detectives seized a fully automatic submachine gun, ammunition and evidence related to the crimes.Jason Green, The Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2024
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The manufacturer, First Line Furniture, said they were tested against high-caliber handguns, AR-15s, submachine guns, hand grenades and .308 sniper rifles.Emily Baumgaertner, New York Times, 18 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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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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In addition to damaging Mechnikov Hospital, the attack also destroyed a two-story residential building and damaged multiple apartment buildings.Katya Soldak, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
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One structure had been destroyed by Monday evening, the county said in an update.Tristan Maglunog, ABC News, 29 Oct. 2024
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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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The cause of a two-alarm fire Wednesday that displaced 10 residents and killed a pet dog remained under investigation Thursday, officials said.Harry Harris, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
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The trial against Richard Allen continues Tuesday, Election Day, in Delphi, Indiana. Allen, 52, is accused of killing two teens who went missing Feb. 13, 2017, and were found dead the next day.Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Nov. 2024
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Launching explosive drones and fighting city block by city block in its Kozak armored trucks, the Kara Dag Brigade slowed the attacking Russian motor rifle regiments from the 2nd Combined Arms Army—but didn’t halt them.David Axe, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2024
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The weapon, Squires said, was a semi-automatic rifle that Kelly obtained from a friend.Perry Vandell, The Arizona Republic, 24 Oct. 2024
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“Machine gun.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/machine%20gun. Accessed 10 Nov. 2024.
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