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On October 19, CIA headquarters sent the station six untraceable submachine guns and ammunition in a diplomatic pouch, to be provided to the plotters.
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Peter Kornbluh, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2014
Satwant Singh, another bodyguard, fired 30 rounds from his submachine gun.
—Breana Scheckwitz, Fox News, 22 May 2024
Of that, roughly $22 million was offensive weapons, including 3,000 portable antitank weapons and 500,000 rounds of ammunition for machine guns, submachine guns, or other fully automatic or semiautomatic firearms.
—Cate Brown, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2024
When modeling a new product, like a U.S. Navy blue jumpsuit, Mr. McGrath may grab his personal plate carrier filled with magazines and a replica World War II British Sten submachine gun.
—Charles W. McFarlane, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
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Peter Kornbluh, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2014
Satwant Singh, another bodyguard, fired 30 rounds from his submachine gun.
—Breana Scheckwitz, Fox News, 22 May 2024
Of that, roughly $22 million was offensive weapons, including 3,000 portable antitank weapons and 500,000 rounds of ammunition for machine guns, submachine guns, or other fully automatic or semiautomatic firearms.
—Cate Brown, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2024
When modeling a new product, like a U.S. Navy blue jumpsuit, Mr. McGrath may grab his personal plate carrier filled with magazines and a replica World War II British Sten submachine gun.
—Charles W. McFarlane, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for submachine gun
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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
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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
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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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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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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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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
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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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“Submachine gun.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/submachine%20gun. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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