How to Use assault weapon in a Sentence

assault weapon

noun

• In that case, some of the weapons made by a gang were assault weapons.
  — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2019
• Some of the gun parts were for AR-style assault weapons.
  — Silas Morgan, Orlando Sentinel, 26 July 2024
• 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
• In that case, some of the weapons, which police said were made by a gang, were assault weapons.
  — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 22 Nov. 2019
• The poll found that 56% back banning the sale of assault weapons, while 38% are opposed.
  — Laura Litvan, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2019
• Moore told The Times on Wednesday about the assault weapons ban that expired in 2004.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2019
• The group argues that there is no such thing as a civilian assault weapon.
  — John Wildermuth, SFChronicle.com, 6 July 2018
• Jean-Pierre called on Congress to pass an assault weapons ban.
  — Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2023
• That was the reason this board took the courageous step to ban assault weapons in our village.
  — Steve Sadin, chicagotribune.com, 11 June 2018
• The idea of an assault weapon ban in Congress is pretty much off the table.
  — NBC News, 28 Mar. 2021
• Yes, but: The group was split on whether to enact a federal ban on assault weapons like the AR-15.
  — Thomas Wheatley, Axios, 13 Sep. 2024
• Young said the change was the result of his attempt to bring an assault weapons ban to the Assembly floor.
  — Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 May 2018
• 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
• This was not the first time Maryland’s assault weapons ban had to pass a 4th Circuit challenge.
  — Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 9 Aug. 2024
• That same night, a man killed nine people with an assault weapon in Dayton, Ohio.
  — ExpressNews.com, 1 Sep. 2019
• There is no good reason for anyone to have an assault weapon.
  — Matt Seaton, The New York Review of Books, 3 Apr. 2021
• In 2021, a court blocked a Boulder, Colorado, assault weapons ban.
  — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 June 2024
• 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
• Crazy thought: Your right to own an assault weapon is not greater than Lisa Lopez-Galvan’s right to not be murdered by one.
  — Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 16 Feb. 2024
• But the lethality of assault weapons has made them the instrument of choice in gun massacres.
  — Dr. Dean L. Winslow, The Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2019
• This is not the first time the 4th Circuit has considered Maryland’s assault weapons ban.
  — Madeleine O'Neill, Baltimore Sun, 6 Aug. 2024
• 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
• Trudeau failed to make good on a 2015 election promise to restrict sales of assault weapons in Canada.
  — Paula Newton, CNN, 1 May 2020
• 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
• Republicans want to ban books and drag queens but not assault weapons.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 29 Feb. 2024
• Six years later, however, the students’ chief demands, universal background checks and a ban on assault weapons, remain just that: demands.
  — Jonathan Zimmerman, Chicago Tribune, 19 Sep. 2024
• Harris supports strengthening background checks to purchase guns and reinstating a federal assault weapons ban.
  — Katie Wiseman, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024