How to Use assault weapon in a Sentence

assault weapon

noun

• The assault weapon and the 9mm were found near his body.
  — Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE.com, 29 Jan. 2018
• In that case, some of the weapons made by a gang were assault weapons.
  — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2019
• Some of the gun parts were for AR-style assault weapons.
  — Silas Morgan, Orlando Sentinel, 26 July 2024
• At the time, Biden was one of the senators who pushed for the 10-year assault weapon ban.
  — Merdie Nzanga, USA TODAY, 20 July 2022
• Democrats would limit or ban the sale of assault weapons.
  — Fox News, 8 Mar. 2018
• In that case, some of the weapons, which police said were made by a gang, were assault weapons.
  — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 22 Nov. 2019
• The poll found that 56% back banning the sale of assault weapons, while 38% are opposed.
  — Laura Litvan, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2019
• Moore told The Times on Wednesday about the assault weapons ban that expired in 2004.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2019
• The rest were a mix of handguns, rifles and assault weapons, cops said.
  — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 4 Apr. 2025
• But homicides have risen to disturbing heights – three times that of the U.S. – since the lapse of the U.S. assault weapons ban in 2004.
  — Sean Campbell, The Conversation, 28 May 2025
• Bosley and the group also worked to pass an assault weapons ban in Illinois last year.
  — Claretta Bellamy, NBC News, 1 Nov. 2024
• The group argues that there is no such thing as a civilian assault weapon.
  — John Wildermuth, SFChronicle.com, 6 July 2018
• The Supreme Court turns away a 2nd Amendment challenge to blue-state bans on assault weapons.
  — Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2025
• Jean-Pierre called on Congress to pass an assault weapons ban.
  — Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2023
• That was the reason this board took the courageous step to ban assault weapons in our village.
  — Steve Sadin, chicagotribune.com, 11 June 2018
• The idea of an assault weapon ban in Congress is pretty much off the table.
  — NBC News, 28 Mar. 2021
• Yes, but: The group was split on whether to enact a federal ban on assault weapons like the AR-15.
  — Thomas Wheatley, Axios, 13 Sep. 2024
• Schools were safer when the federal assault weapons ban was in place.
  — Staff Reports, charlotteobserver, 17 Apr. 2018
• Young said the change was the result of his attempt to bring an assault weapons ban to the Assembly floor.
  — Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 May 2018
• One of these is Kolbe v. Hogan, a challenge to Maryland’s assault weapons ban.
  — Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Magazine, 5 Oct. 2017
• Any push for a new assault weapons ban seemed destined to fail in Congress.
  — Todd C. Frankel, Shawn Boburg, Josh Dawsey, Ashley Parker and Alex Horton, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Mar. 2023
• But what about neo-Nazis who are toting around assault weapons?
  — Mark Joseph Stern, Slate Magazine, 14 Aug. 2017
• There were always guns, but nothing like the assault weapons that line the shelves today.
  — David Joy, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2018
• This was not the first time Maryland’s assault weapons ban had to pass a 4th Circuit challenge.
  — Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 9 Aug. 2024
• That same night, a man killed nine people with an assault weapon in Dayton, Ohio.
  — ExpressNews.com, 1 Sep. 2019
• The shooter was armed with an AR-15, one of the firearms commonly referred to as an assault weapon.
  — Lindsay Whitehurst, Chicago Tribune, 2 June 2025
• There is no good reason for anyone to have an assault weapon.
  — Matt Seaton, The New York Review of Books, 3 Apr. 2021
• In 2021, a court blocked a Boulder, Colorado, assault weapons ban.
  — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 June 2024
• The bills would raise the age for possessing assault weapons, regardless of when they were made, from 18 to 21.
  — Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2023
• Nine other states, the District of Columbia, and various cities have also restricted assault weapons.
  — Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 3 June 2025