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One of the suspects was also armed with an assault rifle and the car was speeding at the time of the crash, McManus said.
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Melina Khan, USA Today, 18 July 2025
Last July 13, just six minutes into Trump's speech to 15,000 fervent fans on the grounds of the Butler Farm Show, Thomas Matthew Crooks fired eight shots from an assault rifle while atop the roof of American Glass Research, some 150 yards away.
—Joshua Rhett Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 July 2025
Nicola, played like a taut violin string by Embeth Davidtz (who also directed and adapted this story from Alexandra Fuller’s memoir of the same name), sleeps cradling an assault rifle.
—Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2025
Brian Anthony Browning, of Romulus, was armed with an AR-15-style assault rifle with more than a dozen magazines of ammunition, a semi-automatic handgun with an extended magazine and hundreds of rounds of ammunition, Wayne police said in a statement.
—Tim Stelloh, NBC news, 23 June 2025
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Melina Khan, USA Today, 18 July 2025
Last July 13, just six minutes into Trump's speech to 15,000 fervent fans on the grounds of the Butler Farm Show, Thomas Matthew Crooks fired eight shots from an assault rifle while atop the roof of American Glass Research, some 150 yards away.
—Joshua Rhett Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 July 2025
Nicola, played like a taut violin string by Embeth Davidtz (who also directed and adapted this story from Alexandra Fuller’s memoir of the same name), sleeps cradling an assault rifle.
—Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2025
Brian Anthony Browning, of Romulus, was armed with an AR-15-style assault rifle with more than a dozen magazines of ammunition, a semi-automatic handgun with an extended magazine and hundreds of rounds of ammunition, Wayne police said in a statement.
—Tim Stelloh, NBC news, 23 June 2025
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Noun
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Her statement was also in part a call to action, as the governor showed her support for a national assault weapons ban.—
Chad de Guzman,
Time,
29 July 2025
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The Supreme Court turns away a 2nd Amendment challenge to blue-state bans on assault weapons.—
Hailey Branson-Potts,
Los Angeles Times,
3 June 2025
Noun
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Akram Aker, another witness, said troops fired machine guns mounted on tanks and drones.—
Wafaa Shurafa,
Chicago Tribune,
19 July 2025
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Joe ducks into a gun store, emerging with a machine gun.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
18 July 2025
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Rock’s talent includes shooting down German fighter planes with a single submachine gun and tossing grenades with great accuracy.—
Justin Kroll,
Deadline,
17 Mar. 2025
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Budweiser factories received bomb threats, customers boycotted the beer, and MAGA musician Kid Rock filmed himself shooting up 12-packs with a submachine gun, tears in his eyes.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
26 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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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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Another relative said Vang then threatened her and another woman while the two were in a car in the driveway and that his finger was on the trigger of a rifle pointed at the car.—
Nick Ferraro,
Twin Cities,
22 July 2025
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The families have also filed a lawsuit against Daniel Defense, which manufactured the AR-style rifle used in the May 24, 2022, shooting.—
Sydney Lake,
Fortune,
21 July 2025
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“Assault rifle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assault%20rifle. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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