submachine gun
noun
sub·ma·chine gun
ˌsəb-mə-ˈshēn-ˌgən 
: a portable automatic firearm that uses pistol-type ammunition and is fired from the shoulder or hip
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Of that, roughly $22 million was offensive weapons, including 3,000 portable antitank weapons and 500,000 rounds of ammunition for machine guns, submachine guns, or other fully automatic or semiautomatic firearms.
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Cate Brown, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2024
When modeling a new product, like a U.S. Navy blue jumpsuit, Mr. McGrath may grab his personal plate carrier filled with magazines and a replica World War II British Sten submachine gun.
—Charles W. McFarlane, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
Miami mall attack Investigators linked her to the 1979 submachine gun attack at Dadeland Mall that shocked Miami.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 1 Feb. 2024
On Gadhafi’s orders, men inside the embassy opened fire with submachine guns, wounding a number of the demonstrators and killing a British policewoman.
—Sam Sacks, WSJ, 5 Jan. 2024
Two San Francisco police officers and a retired officer were charged this week in two criminal cases involving drugs that were flushed down a hotel toilet instead of being collected as evidence and a submachine gun that went missing from police custody.
—Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2022
Saturday’s theft was reminiscent of a 2017 incident in which a submachine gun and a bulletproof vest were stolen from a special agent’s vehicle in the Concord-Orinda-Lafayette area.
—Jessica Flores, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Feb. 2021
My body hears perfect and morphs into a pink submachine gun.
—Melania Luisa Marte, refinery29.com, 14 June 2023
There was a troubling symmetry: Public Enemy’s logo of a black man in a rifle sight on one side, and the JDO’s logo of a machine gun in a Star of David on the other; and the chic allure of Uzi submachine guns on both.
—John Leland, SPIN, 25 Feb. 2023
Cate Brown, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2024
When modeling a new product, like a U.S. Navy blue jumpsuit, Mr. McGrath may grab his personal plate carrier filled with magazines and a replica World War II British Sten submachine gun.
—Charles W. McFarlane, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
Miami mall attack Investigators linked her to the 1979 submachine gun attack at Dadeland Mall that shocked Miami.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 1 Feb. 2024
On Gadhafi’s orders, men inside the embassy opened fire with submachine guns, wounding a number of the demonstrators and killing a British policewoman.
—Sam Sacks, WSJ, 5 Jan. 2024
Two San Francisco police officers and a retired officer were charged this week in two criminal cases involving drugs that were flushed down a hotel toilet instead of being collected as evidence and a submachine gun that went missing from police custody.
—Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2022
Saturday’s theft was reminiscent of a 2017 incident in which a submachine gun and a bulletproof vest were stolen from a special agent’s vehicle in the Concord-Orinda-Lafayette area.
—Jessica Flores, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Feb. 2021
My body hears perfect and morphs into a pink submachine gun.
—Melania Luisa Marte, refinery29.com, 14 June 2023
There was a troubling symmetry: Public Enemy’s logo of a black man in a rifle sight on one side, and the JDO’s logo of a machine gun in a Star of David on the other; and the chic allure of Uzi submachine guns on both.
—John Leland, SPIN, 25 Feb. 2023
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submachine gun
noun
sub·ma·chine gun
ˌsəb-mə-ˈshēn-ˌgən
: a lightweight automatic portable firearm
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