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Advertisement California Police fatally shoot man spotted roaming through Carmel-by-the-Sea streets with assault weapon
Oct. 25, 2024
The grandson armed himself with an AR-15 and began searching for the suspects on a golf cart, authorities said.
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Sandra McDonald, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024
Within weeks, two congressional bills proposed raising the federal minimum age to buy an assault weapon from 18 to 21.
—Corey G. Johnson, ProPublica, 24 Oct. 2024
These school shootings will continue until assault weapon sales are banned.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 8 Sep. 2024
That includes all cases where someone is accused of possession of assault weapons, threatening someone with a gun or committing a violent crime on the CTA.
—A.d. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 30 Oct. 2024
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Sandra McDonald, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024
Within weeks, two congressional bills proposed raising the federal minimum age to buy an assault weapon from 18 to 21.
—Corey G. Johnson, ProPublica, 24 Oct. 2024
These school shootings will continue until assault weapon sales are banned.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 8 Sep. 2024
That includes all cases where someone is accused of possession of assault weapons, threatening someone with a gun or committing a violent crime on the CTA.
—A.d. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 30 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for assault weapon
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He then was flown to a Manhattan heliport, where he was walked slowly up a pier by a throng of officers with assault rifles — a contingent that included New York City Mayor Eric Adams and Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch.MICHAEL R. SISAK, TIME, 19 Dec. 2024
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Just before midnight on November 19, Aldrich entered Club Q and opened fire with an AR-15-style assault rifle, killing five people and injuring 25 others before they were subdued not by the club’s security, but by two patrons.Abby Monteil, Them, 19 Nov. 2024
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One firearm carried a machine gun conversion device, commonly called a Glock Switch.Ryan Murphy, The Indianapolis Star, 19 Dec. 2024
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The beer brand was boycotted by many, including singer Kid Rock who shot a machine gun at crates of Bud Light.Stephan Pechdimaldji, Newsweek, 14 Dec. 2024
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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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Guy comes up, holding a tommy gun.George Saunders, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2020
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That applies to all the dialogue, which doesn’t change at all from character to character, each of them firing off pop culture references like a tommy gun.Joshua Alston, Variety, 11 Jan. 2023
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“Assault weapon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assault%20weapon. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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