machine pistol

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Recent Examples of machine pistol 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 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 Deputies also allegedly found a MAC-10 machine pistol and a 9 mm handgun under the passenger seat. Jason Green, The Mercury News, 19 Aug. 2019 Among the guns seized from Cleveland’s home was a Glock Model 19, 9mm fully-automatic machine pistol with what’s called a drum magazine, according to Sax. oregonlive.com, 11 July 2019
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Noun
  • Jaquez Myrick, 25, was arrested and charged with possession of a machine gun, the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, or ALEA, said in a statement.
    Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 10 Nov. 2024
  • The charges include conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire, committing murder-for-hire involving a death, and use of a machine gun in a violent crime resulting in death.
    Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 25 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • 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
  • Hernandez said detectives seized a fully automatic submachine gun, ammunition and evidence related to the crimes.
    Jason Green, The Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Guy comes up, holding a tommy gun.
    George Saunders, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2020
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Zoom in: Serrano's clients include Guardian Arms, a Moses Lake gun shop seeking to overturn Washington's ban on selling dozens of firearms that the state now defines as assault weapons.
    Melissa Santos, Axios, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Vance and Trump oppose most gun-control laws, including an assault weapons ban and national red-flag laws proposed by Harris.
    Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 26 Oct. 2024

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“Machine pistol.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/machine%20pistol. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.

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