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Recent Examples of submachine gun
One casing is a 9mm caliber, likely a pistol, or a machine pistol or a submachine gun, Weir said.
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Mohammad Al Sawalhi, CNN, 26 June 2024
On October 19, CIA headquarters sent the station six untraceable submachine guns and ammunition in a diplomatic pouch, to be provided to the plotters.
—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
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Mohammad Al Sawalhi, CNN, 26 June 2024
On October 19, CIA headquarters sent the station six untraceable submachine guns and ammunition in a diplomatic pouch, to be provided to the plotters.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for submachine gun
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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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Smith pleaded guilty in May to the unlawful possession of a machine gun.—
Alex Malm,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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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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The weapon tiers will remain largely the same, so assault rifles will still stack above SMGs in their effectiveness.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
5 Feb. 2025
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And five months later, less than three miles from the NSSF’s Connecticut headquarters at the time, another young man, armed with an assault rifle, slaughtered 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School, including 20 children.—
Corey G. Johnson,
ProPublica,
5 Feb. 2025
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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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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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“Submachine gun.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/submachine%20gun. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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