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Weaver was ultimately prosecuted for violating his parole in a 2019 drug dealing case, where police caught him with a pound of methamphetamine, an AK-47 assault rifle, two pistols and 10 grams of cocaine, court records show.
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Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 26 Aug. 2025
Reports of active shooters wielding assault rifles on campus sent excited students preparing for a new school year at Villanova University in Pennsylvania and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga into lockdown as law enforcement officers surged to the schools to assess the threats.
—Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2025
Also found were four non-ghost guns, an AK-47 assault rifle, two SKS hunting rifles and a Derringer-style pistol that shoots 12-gauge shotgun rounds that were not registered, prosecutors and police sources said.
—Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 20 Aug. 2025
Remembering Wesley LePatner Last Monday, a twenty-seven-year-old man killed five people with an assault rifle in an office tower on Park Avenue.
—Cristian Farias, New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2025
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Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 26 Aug. 2025
Reports of active shooters wielding assault rifles on campus sent excited students preparing for a new school year at Villanova University in Pennsylvania and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga into lockdown as law enforcement officers surged to the schools to assess the threats.
—Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2025
Also found were four non-ghost guns, an AK-47 assault rifle, two SKS hunting rifles and a Derringer-style pistol that shoots 12-gauge shotgun rounds that were not registered, prosecutors and police sources said.
—Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 20 Aug. 2025
Remembering Wesley LePatner Last Monday, a twenty-seven-year-old man killed five people with an assault rifle in an office tower on Park Avenue.
—Cristian Farias, New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for assault rifle
Noun
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Even as violent crime has fallen, the sharp rise in mass shootings after Congress allowed the federal assault weapons ban to elapse in 2004 and the recent rise in political violence are reasons for deep concern.—
John J. Donohue,
Time,
15 Sep. 2025
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Hundreds gathered at the state Capitol on Monday asking Gov. Tim Walz to call a special legislative session to ban assault weapons on the heels of a mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic School last week that killed two children and injured 18 children and adults.—
Kristi Miller,
Twin Cities,
2 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Two other 16-year-old boys were arrested for dangerous possession of a firearm and possession of a machine gun related to the shooting.—
Jade Jackson,
IndyStar,
22 Sep. 2025
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The movie cuts from the assassin pulling a machine gun from his bag to Joe hurling a pot of hot coffee at him, igniting a close-quarters battle that trashes the place.—
Matt Zoller Seitz,
Vulture,
17 Sep. 2025
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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
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Rock’s talent includes shooting down German fighter planes with a single submachine gun and tossing grenades with great accuracy.—
Justin Kroll,
Deadline,
17 Mar. 2025
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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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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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Gauging from the trailer, this grisly period piece appears to be set in the South with Jordan starring in a dual role as a pair of twins, at least one of whom gets to spray bullets with a retro tommy gun.—
Meredith Blake,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Jan. 2025
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The brother had gotten access to an unsecured AR-style rifle that Ramos-Jimenez stored in the sibling's bedroom.—
Alexandra Hardle,
AZCentral.com,
24 Sep. 2025
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The suspect then gets inside the car and retrieves a mini-Draco rifle and again begins to shoot towards the victims.—
Jade Jackson,
IndyStar,
23 Sep. 2025
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“Assault rifle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assault%20rifle. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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