submachine gun

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Recent Examples of submachine gun Police also found 89 firearms, including handguns, submachine guns and AR-15-style rifles, as well as small explosive devices, large quantities of ammunition, silencers, high-capacity magazines, body armor and $500,000 in Canadian, equivalent to roughly $360,000 in US dollars. Max Hauptman, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2024 Hernandez said detectives seized a fully automatic submachine gun, ammunition and evidence related to the crimes. Jason Green, The Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2024 The manufacturer, First Line Furniture, said they were tested against high-caliber handguns, AR-15s, submachine guns, hand grenades and .308 sniper rifles. Emily Baumgaertner, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2024 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 See All Example Sentences for submachine gun
Recent Examples of Synonyms for submachine gun
Noun
  • In Weekend 2 So Ukraine has relied more on 900 mobile defence units, mainly armed with anti-aircraft cannon and machine guns mounted on a variety of vehicles.
    David Hambling, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025
  • The Ukrainian Navy patrol boat zipped across the Black Sea, its double-barreled, 25-millimeter machine gun locked on the horizon.
    Constant Méheut, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
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
Noun
  • But for anyone with a taste for operatic violence and fountains of blood as shotgun and assault rifle blasts send bodies flying in slo-mo or dancing like convulsive marionettes, Gareth Evans’ gritty neo-noir will be just the ticket.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 24 Apr. 2025
  • In his car was an AK-47 style assault rifle and 66 rounds of ammunition.
    Katrina Kaufman, CBS News, 25 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Everyone was for a ban on assault weapons and universal background checks.
    Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Hosny was charged with carrying a pistol without a permit, possession of a high-capacity magazine, possession of a firearm without a serial number and possession of an assault weapon.
    Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 15 Mar. 2025

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“Submachine gun.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/submachine%20gun. Accessed 1 May. 2025.

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