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Recent Examples of AK-47
Prosecutors allege that these individuals committed acts of violence using weapons including AK-47s, grenades, and machine guns.
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Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 July 2025
The day before the murders, Bell accompanied Williams to buy an AK-47, magazine devices and bullets.
—Jim Saunders, Sun Sentinel, 8 July 2025
One of the men shot an AK-47 through the officer’s window, wounding him.
—Longreads, 8 July 2025
Based on Broussard’s testimony, they were also indicted in the separate murder of a restaurant worker, Michael Wills, who Mackey killed with an AK-47 on July 12, 2007, near the North Oakland bakery.
—Thomas Peele, Mercury News, 9 June 2025
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Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 July 2025
The day before the murders, Bell accompanied Williams to buy an AK-47, magazine devices and bullets.
—Jim Saunders, Sun Sentinel, 8 July 2025
One of the men shot an AK-47 through the officer’s window, wounding him.
—Longreads, 8 July 2025
Based on Broussard’s testimony, they were also indicted in the separate murder of a restaurant worker, Michael Wills, who Mackey killed with an AK-47 on July 12, 2007, near the North Oakland bakery.
—Thomas Peele, Mercury News, 9 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for AK-47
Noun
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Tooson did not dispute that his client was in possession of a rifle.—
Christopher Buchanan,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Jan. 2026
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In response, a deputy armed with a rifle shot Alfonso before others rushed to the porch and rescued the child.—
Matthew Rodriguez,
CBS News,
5 Jan. 2026
Noun
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That’s Avatar’s potent, if polarizing, cocktail: Hippie-ish spirituality comfortably exists alongside absurd action scenes, such as when Jake nerfs Marines with a carbine rifle while flying on the back of a dinosaur.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
19 Dec. 2025
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Set in the 1940s in fictional Hohman, Indiana, young Ralphie Parker dreams of nothing more than an official Red Ryder carbine-action 200-shot Range Model air rifle for Christmas.—
Domenica Bongiovanni,
IndyStar,
25 Nov. 2025
Noun
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But hand the ball off from that same shotgun formation?—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
6 Jan. 2026
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There was also a bad fumble on a snap out of shotgun.—
David Aldridge,
New York Times,
5 Jan. 2026
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Both legal experts who spoke to NPR noted that the two machine gun charges, which carry lengthy prison sentences, may push Maduro into at least considering a plea.—
Joe Hernandez,
NPR,
6 Jan. 2026
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Jared Tomas Gonzalez, 25, of Gary, and Terrell Zair Samuels, 20, of East Chicago, are both charged with possession of a machine gun, a Level 5 felony, and misdemeanor resisting law enforcement by using a vehicle.—
Post-Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Jan. 2026
Noun
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It was buried inside a shipping container alongside a silencer, an Uzi submachine gun and tens of thousands of bullets of different calibers.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
7 Jan. 2026
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Police learned Pyles owns a handgun and a submachine gun, according to charging documents.—
Jose R. Gonzalez,
AZCentral.com,
20 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The printing press, clocks, muskets — all these inventions changed humankind forever.—
Hannah Edgar,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Jan. 2026
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The mind thrills to imagine a genderless prophet among the brocades and buckskin breeches of Revolutionary America, weirding out the normies, sticking a flower in the barrel of a musket, and goading the new nation to let its hair down—literally.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
30 Dec. 2025
Noun
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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
Noun
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Gunfire disrupts the silence as Raya emerges through smoke, armed with a tommy gun.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
8 Jan. 2026
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After speeches by longtime colleagues (the F.B.I. director, Christopher Wray, presented him with a replica tommy gun), Garland spoke.—
Fabio Bertoni,
The New Yorker,
17 Jan. 2025
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“AK-47.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/AK-47. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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