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Police also found 89 firearms, including handguns, submachine guns and AR-15-style rifles, as well as small explosive devices, large quantities of ammunition, silencers, high-capacity magazines, body armor and $500,000 in Canadian, equivalent to roughly $360,000 in US dollars.
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Max Hauptman, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2024
Hernandez said detectives seized a fully automatic submachine gun, ammunition and evidence related to the crimes.
—Jason Green, The Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2024
The manufacturer, First Line Furniture, said they were tested against high-caliber handguns, AR-15s, submachine guns, hand grenades and .308 sniper rifles.
—Emily Baumgaertner, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2024
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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Max Hauptman, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2024
Hernandez said detectives seized a fully automatic submachine gun, ammunition and evidence related to the crimes.
—Jason Green, The Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2024
The manufacturer, First Line Furniture, said they were tested against high-caliber handguns, AR-15s, submachine guns, hand grenades and .308 sniper rifles.
—Emily Baumgaertner, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2024
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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The 34-year-old man and his 25-year-old girlfriend, both Oakland residents, were charged with being felons in possession of firearms, possessing a machine gun, and possessing property that was stolen from the U.S. Coast Guard in Oakland, court records show.—
Nate Gartrell,
Mercury News,
4 July 2025
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Most notably, the engine compartment has been reinforced with armor to better withstand machine gun fire.—
Vikram Mittal,
Forbes.com,
28 June 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 suit seeks to strike parts of the ordinance that ban anyone under 21 from having a handgun or ammunition and a prohibition on anyone between the ages of 18 and 20 from possessing a semiautomatic assault rifle with certain exceptions.—
Kacen Bayless,
Kansas City Star,
27 June 2025
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Officers with assault rifles and faces covered pulled those arrested into vans and trucks.—
Brittny Mejia,
Los Angeles Times,
20 June 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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That’s the number of states, including Maryland, that have assault weapons bans in place, as compiled by pro-gun control group Everytown for Gun Safety: California, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Washington.—
Alison Durkee,
Forbes.com,
2 June 2025
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Gun control advocates have been pushing for an assault weapons ban in Rhode Island for more than a decade.—
Kimberlee Kruesi,
Los Angeles Times,
21 June 2025
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“Submachine gun.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/submachine%20gun. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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