submachine gun

Examples of submachine gun in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Of that, roughly $22 million was offensive weapons, including 3,000 portable antitank weapons and 500,000 rounds of ammunition for machine guns, submachine guns, or other fully automatic or semiautomatic firearms. Cate Brown, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2024 When modeling a new product, like a U.S. Navy blue jumpsuit, Mr. McGrath may grab his personal plate carrier filled with magazines and a replica World War II British Sten submachine gun. Charles W. McFarlane, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024 Miami mall attack Investigators linked her to the 1979 submachine gun attack at Dadeland Mall that shocked Miami. Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 1 Feb. 2024 On Gadhafi’s orders, men inside the embassy opened fire with submachine guns, wounding a number of the demonstrators and killing a British policewoman. Sam Sacks, WSJ, 5 Jan. 2024 See all Example Sentences for submachine gun 

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“Submachine gun.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/submachine%20gun. Accessed 14 Oct. 2024.

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