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Recent Examples of assault rifle
Militants armed with assault rifles entered Baisaran valley, a popular tourist spot, and 26 civilians were killed.
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Jasreen Mayal Khanna, AFAR Media, 19 May 2025
Once a Brink’s driver exited an armored vehicle to deliver money to a business, prosecutors said robbers ambushed them, with testimony in the case later revealing that the conspirators used assault rifles to carry out their robberies.
—Krystal Nurse, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2025
Ronald McDonald pulling on a Marlboro Red, an assault rifle slung across his back while on break from operating the Happy Meal command center/ball pit?
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 14 May 2025
Officers carrying assault rifles can be seen along the edge of a crowd of students evacuated from a building on campus.
—Graham Hurley, Aaron Fisher and Katherine Jennings, CNN Money, 19 Apr. 2025
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Jasreen Mayal Khanna, AFAR Media, 19 May 2025
Once a Brink’s driver exited an armored vehicle to deliver money to a business, prosecutors said robbers ambushed them, with testimony in the case later revealing that the conspirators used assault rifles to carry out their robberies.
—Krystal Nurse, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2025
Ronald McDonald pulling on a Marlboro Red, an assault rifle slung across his back while on break from operating the Happy Meal command center/ball pit?
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 14 May 2025
Officers carrying assault rifles can be seen along the edge of a crowd of students evacuated from a building on campus.
—Graham Hurley, Aaron Fisher and Katherine Jennings, CNN Money, 19 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for assault rifle
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Republican legislators have long accused the Democratic majority of infringing on the Second Amendment right to bear arms through laws such as the 2023 assault weapons ban, which remains under court challenge.—
Jeremy Gorner,
Chicago Tribune,
14 June 2025
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Supreme Court rejects challenge to Maryland's assault weapons ban Supreme Court lets Trump end program protecting Haitians, Venezuelans, others Melissa Quinn Melissa Quinn is a politics reporter for CBSNews.com.—
Melissa Quinn
June 9,
CBS News,
9 June 2025
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Weapons experts said the rate of gunfire heard in the footage, as well as images of bullets retrieved from victims, were consistent with machine guns used by the Israeli military that can be mounted on tanks.—
Jeremy Diamond,
CNN Money,
4 June 2025
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This conflict, ensnared in trench warfare, is reminiscent of the battlefields of Europe in World War I, where the machine gun and tank notably became revolutions in military affairs; the small drone is this generation’s change to modern warfare.—
Bill Edwards,
Forbes.com,
3 June 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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Their daughter competed for Puerto Rico in rifle shooting at the Olympics in 2016, 2021 and 2024.—
Jessica Schladebeck,
New York Daily News,
4 June 2025
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The man said he was armed with an AK-47 rifle and three magazines, a handgun and one pound of C-4 explosives strapped to his chest.—
Robert A. Cronkleton,
Kansas City Star,
4 June 2025
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“Assault rifle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assault%20rifle. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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