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submachine gun

noun as in portable automatic firearm

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Police said they were searching for the two attackers, who they said had exited the vehicle with a submachine gun and fled the scene.

The UN fact finding mission said the authorities used shotguns, assault rifles and submachine guns against demonstrators, "thereby committing unlawful and extrajudicial killings."

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To carry out his plans, Wischhusen compiled an armoury of homemade weapons including pistols, submachine guns and a shotgun, as well as ammunition, bombs, grenades and poison.

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He fought in three of its five major battles, as well as in many lesser engagements, armed with a Thompson submachine gun.

The defendant spoke of his desire to get hold of a submachine gun and assault rifle, in encrypted chats on the Threema messaging platform.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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