How to Use assault weapon in a Sentence

assault weapon

noun

• At the time, Biden was one of the senators who pushed for the 10-year assault weapon ban.
  — Merdie Nzanga, USA TODAY, 20 July 2022
• Jean-Pierre called on Congress to pass an assault weapons ban.
  — Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2023
• Any push for a new assault weapons ban seemed destined to fail in Congress.
  — Todd C. Frankel, Shawn Boburg, Josh Dawsey, Ashley Parker and Alex Horton, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Mar. 2023
• The bills would raise the age for possessing assault weapons, regardless of when they were made, from 18 to 21.
  — Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2023
• This is a good example of why a 17-year-old shouldn’t be running around with an assault weapon.
  — Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 19 Nov. 2021
• Other bills would ban ghost guns and restrict the peddling of small assault weapon look-alikes to children.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2022
• But starting in the mid-2000s, after the assault weapons ban expired, their appeal grew.
  — Michael Steinberger, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2023
• An assault weapon, an AR-15 style, was used in Colorado, but not in those two Virginia shootings.
  — CBS News, 27 Nov. 2022
• The state argued the law aims to prevent mass shooters from gaining access to assault weapons.
  — Taylor Romine, CNN, 20 Oct. 2023
• The turning point was his support for a 1994 crime bill that included an assault weapons ban.
  — Mike McIntire, New York Times, 30 July 2023
• That case, which has been newly appealed, is on hold until the 9th Circuit rules in the prior assault weapon case.
  — Kristina Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 June 2021
• Officials state that the suspect, an 18-year-old white man, was wielding an assault weapon.
  — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 14 May 2022
• In a major reversal, Golden, a Democrat, called on Congress to ban assault weapons in the wake of the shooting.
  — Brian Dakss, Jordan Freiman, CBS News, 27 Oct. 2023
• He’s now part of the ever-growing community of doctors who have had to see what an assault weapon can do to a child’s body.
  — Caroline Anders, Washington Post, 1 July 2022
• In her first year in the Senate, Feinstein authored an assault weapons ban which was signed into law in 1994.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 29 Oct. 2023
• Neither was fighting the gun lobby to pass a 10-year federal ban on assault weapons.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2023
• Access to assault weapons only makes this crisis more lethal.
  — Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 7 Dec. 2023
• One man got out with an AR-style assault weapon; another man had a handgun, the affidavit says.
  — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2024
• Of the groups, Asian and Black Americans displayed the most support for stricter gun control laws and a nationwide ban on assault weapons.
  — Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 22 Mar. 2023
• After the Lewiston massacre, Collins has resisted calls for a new ban on assault weapons.
  — James Bandler, ProPublica, 21 Nov. 2023
• Foster also faced a felony charge for possession of an assault weapon.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 7 Aug. 2021
• The suspect used an assault weapon, Flynn said during the news conference.
  — Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN, 15 May 2022
• Flynn said the suspect, who allegedly used an assault weapon in the shooting, was not known to law enforcement.
  — Victoria Albert, CBS News, 14 May 2022
• One-third of perpetrators used an AR-15 style assault weapon.
  — Fortune, 23 Nov. 2022
• Even with majorities in both houses of Congress during Mr. Biden’s first two years in office, Democrats could not pass a ban on assault weapons.
  — Michael Corkery, New York Times, 16 June 2023
• All of our right to not be innocent victims in a mass shooting is as important as others’ right to own an assault weapon.
  — Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 18 Feb. 2024
• Biden has also repeatedly called on Congress to pass a ban on assault weapons.
  — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 4 Oct. 2023
• The killer, armed with an automatic assault weapon, was shot dead by police after a 3-hour standoff.
  — Jeff Truesdell, PEOPLE.com, 28 June 2021
• Casar wants red flag laws, universal background checks, an end to permitless carry and a ban on assault weapon sales.
  — Eric Johnson, Dallas News, 7 Feb. 2023
• One of the cases argued in Richmond involves Maryland’s assault weapons ban, which is among a dozen laws of its type facing challenges across the country.
  — Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 28 May 2024