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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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for submachine gun
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Weapons experts said the rate of gunfire heard in the footage, as well as images of bullets retrieved from victims, were consistent with machine guns used by the Israeli military.—
Oren Liebermann,
CNN Money,
27 June 2025
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Seven decades before Limonov fired his machine gun into Sarajevo, another poet went on a Croatian misadventure some five-hundred miles north in Rjeka, then known as Fiume.—
Ed Simon
June 23,
Literary Hub,
23 June 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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There is also the church member who was divinely positioned to see the assailant approaching the church in full tactical gear, including an assault rifle, and acted swiftly to hit him with his truck, injuring him.—
Nick Lentz,
CBS News,
24 June 2025
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Figgs fired at least three bullets from an assault rifle at Deputy Joe Kill, who was struck with shrapnel near his right collar bone.—
Kathryn Kovalenko,
Twin Cities,
18 June 2025
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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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Gun control advocates have been pushing for an assault weapons ban in Rhode Island for more than a decade.—
Kimberlee Kruesi,
Los Angeles Times,
21 June 2025
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Republican legislators have long accused the Democratic majority of infringing on the Second Amendment right to bear arms through laws such as the 2023 assault weapons ban, which remains under court challenge.—
Jeremy Gorner,
Chicago Tribune,
14 June 2025
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“Submachine gun.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/submachine%20gun. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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