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Recent Examples of assault rifle
At another point, the Biden administration held up an order of 24,000 assault rifles out of concern that settlers in the West Bank could use the rifles in violence against Palestinians there.
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Edward Wong, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2025
As that vehicle advanced toward the compound, some of the commandos, dressed in white T-shirts and armed with assault rifles and carrying military backpacks, pointed guns at the police.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2025
American troops patrol the area with assault rifles, where IEDs and chemical weapons await them.
—Matt Donnelly, Variety, 24 Jan. 2025
Hamas fighters armed with assault rifles pushed back the crowds as a convoy of vehicles carrying the three Israeli hostages entered the square.
—Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2025
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Edward Wong, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2025
As that vehicle advanced toward the compound, some of the commandos, dressed in white T-shirts and armed with assault rifles and carrying military backpacks, pointed guns at the police.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2025
American troops patrol the area with assault rifles, where IEDs and chemical weapons await them.
—Matt Donnelly, Variety, 24 Jan. 2025
Hamas fighters armed with assault rifles pushed back the crowds as a convoy of vehicles carrying the three Israeli hostages entered the square.
—Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for assault rifle
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One of the ghost guns was an AR-15-style assault rifle, and two additional AR-15-style assault weapons were also recovered, prosecutors said.—
Leonard Greene,
New York Daily News,
6 Feb. 2025
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Her organization continues to advocate for an assault weapons ban and background checks on all firearm sales, but such ideas are going nowhere in a Washington where the GOP controls the White House and both chambers of Congress.—
Lexi Lonas Cochran,
The Hill,
12 Jan. 2025
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After drinking alcohol with his colleagues, the accused took a machine gun and went to the command dugout, knocked on the door, and started shooting at patrolmen, killing a junior sergeant.—
Justin Gest,
Newsweek,
11 Feb. 2025
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Kevin Parker faces drug charges involving methamphetamine, fentanyl, cocaine, and heroin, along with allegations of being a felon in possession of a gun, unlawful dealing in firearms and possessing and transferring a machine gun, according to the U. S. Attorney’s Office.—
Rosalio Ahumada,
Sacramento Bee,
7 Feb. 2025
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Rock’s talent includes shooting down German plans with a single submachine gun and tossing grenades with great accuracy.—
Justin Kroll,
Deadline,
20 Nov. 2024
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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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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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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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The bloodshed at the hands of a teenager with a semiautomatic rifle spurred unusual activism from surviving students.—
Jorge L. Ortiz,
USA TODAY,
14 Feb. 2025
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The district office at the Folsom Cordova Unified School District went on lockdown Friday after school officials noticed a person holding what appeared to be a rifle, but the lockdown was lifted after law enforcement found no evidence of a crime, authorities said.—
Ishani Desai,
Sacramento Bee,
14 Feb. 2025
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“Assault rifle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assault%20rifle. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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