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After applying that new framework to Maryland's ban, the 4th Circuit concluded last year that the assault weapons ban is constitutional.
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Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 2 June 2025
Her statement was also in part a call to action, as the governor showed her support for a national assault weapons ban.
—Chad De Guzman, Time, 29 July 2025
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
Topline The Supreme Court ruled Monday to let two state gun control laws remain in place, as the 6-3 conservative court declined to take up challenges to Maryland’s assault weapons ban and Rhode Island’s ban on high-capacity magazines.
—Alison Durkee, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025
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Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 2 June 2025
Her statement was also in part a call to action, as the governor showed her support for a national assault weapons ban.
—Chad De Guzman, Time, 29 July 2025
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
Topline The Supreme Court ruled Monday to let two state gun control laws remain in place, as the 6-3 conservative court declined to take up challenges to Maryland’s assault weapons ban and Rhode Island’s ban on high-capacity magazines.
—Alison Durkee, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for assault weapon
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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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That sense of serenity was shattered Monday when a man stormed the Midtown building with an assault rifle and unleashed a hailstorm of bullets, killing three people in the lobby.—
Holly Yan,
CNN Money,
1 Aug. 2025
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The East German guards, many still in uniform but without their lethal machine guns, seemed amused, almost giddy.—
Jim Clash,
Forbes.com,
2 Aug. 2025
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In July 2023, he was accused of importing a gun part to convert a semi-automatic rifle into a fully automatic machine gun.—
Joseph Wilkinson,
New York Daily News,
29 July 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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Budweiser factories received bomb threats, customers boycotted the beer, and MAGA musician Kid Rock filmed himself shooting up 12-packs with a submachine gun, tears in his eyes.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
26 Feb. 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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“Assault weapon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assault%20weapon. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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