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Recent Examples of submachine gun
Rock’s talent includes shooting down German fighter planes with a single submachine gun and tossing grenades with great accuracy.
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Justin Kroll, Deadline, 17 Mar. 2025
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
Angry protesters denounced the brand on TikTok, ultimately leading to bomb threats, a country musician banning sales of the beer on his tour and a Twitter video of Kid Rock firing at cases of Bud Light with a submachine gun.
—Maggie Lange, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025
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
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Justin Kroll, Deadline, 17 Mar. 2025
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
Angry protesters denounced the brand on TikTok, ultimately leading to bomb threats, a country musician banning sales of the beer on his tour and a Twitter video of Kid Rock firing at cases of Bud Light with a submachine gun.
—Maggie Lange, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for submachine gun
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The commander operated the main gun, a Puteaux SA 1918 37 mm cannon (or Hotchkiss machine gun), while a FT 31 machine gun was operated by the driver.—
Matthew S Williams,
Interesting Engineering,
1 May 2026
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But while the number of charges has increased, the number of convictions has remained the same — in 2025, 46 of the 47 charges for use of a machine gun for aggressive purposes were dropped.—
Sasha Allen,
Hartford Courant,
29 Apr. 2026
Noun
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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
Noun
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Who needs an assault rifle with a 100-round cylinder?—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
3 May 2026
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According to Tejada, police found that Jones allegedly had an AR-15 assault rifle in his bookbag.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
1 May 2026
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Gunfire disrupts the silence as Raya emerges through smoke, armed with a tommy gun.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
8 Jan. 2026
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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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Jones was arrested on charges of possession of an assault weapon, possession of a large capacity magazine, carrying a pistol without a permit and interfering with an officer.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
1 May 2026
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Analysis shows that nearly 20% of mass killings are committed with weapons other than firearms Semiautomatic handguns are far more common in mass killings than guns that are typically characterized as assault weapons, such as the AR-15.—
USA Today,
USA Today,
20 Apr. 2026
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“Submachine gun.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/submachine%20gun. Accessed 9 May. 2026.
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