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Recent Examples of assault weapon
The shooter was armed with an AR-15, one of the firearms commonly referred to as an assault weapon.
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Lindsay Whitehurst, Chicago Tribune, 2 June 2025
For more than a decade, the justices have turned away gun-rights appeals that challenged local or state bans on assault weapons.
—David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2025
Craig Steven Miceli, 54, is charged with one count of shooting at an occupied vehicle, three counts of assault with a firearm, and two counts of possession of an assault weapon.
—Christine Pelisek, People.com, 30 May 2025
Gilbert Berry, 43, of Oakland, is charged with murder and possession of an assault weapon in the fatal shooting on May 22 of Jacoby Diego Morales, who had addresses in Las Vegas and San Francisco.
—Harry Harris, Mercury News, 28 May 2025
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Lindsay Whitehurst, Chicago Tribune, 2 June 2025
For more than a decade, the justices have turned away gun-rights appeals that challenged local or state bans on assault weapons.
—David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2025
Craig Steven Miceli, 54, is charged with one count of shooting at an occupied vehicle, three counts of assault with a firearm, and two counts of possession of an assault weapon.
—Christine Pelisek, People.com, 30 May 2025
Gilbert Berry, 43, of Oakland, is charged with murder and possession of an assault weapon in the fatal shooting on May 22 of Jacoby Diego Morales, who had addresses in Las Vegas and San Francisco.
—Harry Harris, Mercury News, 28 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for assault weapon
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The 24-year-old, who fired an AR-15-style assault rifle from a rooftop into the parade’s crowd, is expected to spend the rest of his life behind bars.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
23 Apr. 2025
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The assault rifle that was allegedly going to be used to carry out the murder.—
Dennis Romero,
NBC News,
22 Mar. 2025
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Pictures of bullets from the scene were also consistent with machine guns used by the IDF as they can be mounted on tanks, according to the news outlet.—
Callum Sutherland,
Time,
7 June 2025
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In November 2020, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, viewed by many as the chief architect of Iran's nuclear program, was slain in a remote-control machine gun attack in Iran that has been widely attributed to Israel.—
Tom O'Connor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 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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“Assault weapon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assault%20weapon. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.
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