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Additionally, Cacho is facing one count of possession of an unregistered assault weapon, and Rodriguez-Arroyo is facing one count of carjacking, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office.
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Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2024
Ramos has been convicted of possessing an assault weapon in 2010, while Pimentil’s prior convictions include gun possession and possessing drugs in a jail facility, court records show.
—Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 17 Oct. 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
The court has already been asked to take up a number of major disputes over firearm regulations, including cases on Maryland’s assault weapons ban, the ban on people convicted of felonies possessing guns and whether states can ban 18-to-20-year olds from purchasing guns.
—Alison Durkee, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
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Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2024
Ramos has been convicted of possessing an assault weapon in 2010, while Pimentil’s prior convictions include gun possession and possessing drugs in a jail facility, court records show.
—Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 17 Oct. 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
The court has already been asked to take up a number of major disputes over firearm regulations, including cases on Maryland’s assault weapons ban, the ban on people convicted of felonies possessing guns and whether states can ban 18-to-20-year olds from purchasing guns.
—Alison Durkee, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
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What appeared to be a replica of an assault rifle is affixed to the hood of the vehicle, which has a Trump sign on the front.Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 1 Nov. 2024
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Officials said Colt Gray rode the school bus to Apalachee High School carrying a semiautomatic assault rifle hidden in his backpack.CBS News, CBS News, 12 Sep. 2024
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Young Thug, one of six defendants standing trial, is also charged with possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, possession of codeine with intent to distribute, possession of cocaine, possession of a firearm, and possession of a machine gun.Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 31 Oct. 2024
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To compete players can arm themselves with a range of firearms including machine guns, assault rifles and shotguns.Nina Turner, Newsweek, 29 Oct. 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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Hernandez said detectives seized a fully automatic submachine gun, ammunition and evidence related to the crimes.Jason Green, The Mercury News, 29 Oct. 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 19 Nov. 2024.
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