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as in machine pistol

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Noun

Players can acquire four melee weapons — a katana, a spear, knuckles and a heavy sword — and four firearms — a pistol, a machine gun, a shotgun and a rocket launcher. —

Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2026 Sandgaard hung a large banner on the fourth floor, a spoof of a popular George Washington meme in which the Zynex founder is holding a machine gun in one hand, a bald eagle perched on his other arm. —

Sam Tabachnik, Denver Post, 5 Mar. 2026

Verb

Warning Shots North Korea issued a scathing statement Saturday criticizing South Korea for firing more than 10 machine-gun warning shots on Tuesday as North Korean troops worked on a barrier near the Military Demarcation Line (MDL), the de facto border. —

Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Aug. 2025 Typically these include cargo carrying, casualty evacuation, mine laying, one-way attacks with explosive warheads, and direct combat using machine-gun turrets. —

David Hambling, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for machine gun

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Noun

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
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