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submachine gun

[ suhb-muh-sheen guhn ]

noun

  1. a lightweight automatic or semiautomatic gun, fired from the shoulder or hip. : SMG


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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of submachine gun1

First recorded in 1915–20; sub- + machine gun
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A professor also showed BBC Panorama how he found someone within moments on Telegram who offered to ship an Uzi submachine gun to the UK for £850.

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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.

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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.

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