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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.
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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
Hernandez said detectives seized a fully automatic submachine gun, ammunition and evidence related to the crimes.
—Jason Green, The Mercury News, 29 Oct. 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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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
Hernandez said detectives seized a fully automatic submachine gun, ammunition and evidence related to the crimes.
—Jason Green, The Mercury News, 29 Oct. 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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Large groups were indiscriminately huddled together and riddled with machine gun fire.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
29 Aug. 2025
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Secondary weapons include a coaxial machine gun and Spike and Konkurs anti-tank missiles.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
26 Aug. 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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Westman had decorated the assault rifle and shotgun with hate speech in ways that aligned with the dark underbelly of alt-right meme culture that regularly disparages people of color, Jewish people, the LGBTQ+, and people with disabilities.—
Natalie Eilbert,
jsonline.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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Hatfield and 41-year-old David Vanover thought Gladwell had stole money from them and confronted him with an assault rifle outside a home on East Miami River Road, according to the Hamilton County Prosecutor's Office.—
David Ferrara,
The Enquirer,
26 Aug. 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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There’s a surreal moment in the movie where Archer has a dream and sees a giant assault weapon floating over a house.—
William Earl,
Variety,
8 Aug. 2025
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Felony possession of an assault weapon is punishable by up to three years in prison and a $10,000 fine under California law.—
Joseph Wilkinson,
New York Daily News,
3 Aug. 2025
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“Submachine gun.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/submachine%20gun. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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