Sentences with phrase «as a machine gun»

Automatic weapons are what many Americans think of as machine guns.

The National Rifle Association on Thursday endorsed tighter restrictions on devices that allow a rifle to fire bullets as fast as a machine gun — a rare, if small, step for a group that for years has vehemently opposed any new gun controls.

Death will be welcome, if only our war cry penetrates receptive ears, if only another hand reaches out to take our weapons, if only other men rise up to intone the funeral chants as the machine guns crackle and new battle cries and songs of victory sound out.»

Though a satirist always risks blowback, both from those who don't get the joke and from some who do, when it comes to social criticism, I tend to follow what we might call the Joe Bob Briggs Doctrine: think of the social critic as a machine gun spraying fire across the cultural landscape, and «when a target screams, you've found the sacred cow.

A bump fire stock, also known as a bump stock, is a device that effectively turns a semiautomatic weapon into an automatic weapon, also known as a machine gun.

There's also bonus futuristic gadgets to test such as a machine gun equipped drone and a new DS - 3 Decoy Signal.

Now available at Elitás Travel is the brand new Western Seabreeze, with the ability to land on a runway or the open ocean, and options to upgrade to weaponry such as a machine gun and bomb bay.

This transforms the Batmobile into a tank-esque vehicle, with a large rocket being at your disposal, as well as a machine gun that will pluck rockets out of the sky.

Running around as a machine gun armed robo - soldier was a damn good time.

The primary weapons are standard shooter fare such as machine guns and shotguns, but the special weapons are all over-the-top.

Coins are spent on upgrading weapons, purchasing new ones, such as the machine gun, grenade launcher, or sniper rifle, as well as earning doubling coin drop rates and other special items.

You can collect different weapons such as machine guns, rocket launchers and shotguns that are situated around the map.

There's a lot of options to choose from, and many of the weapons you get as early as the first level, such as the machine gun and the Sun Disc, become incredibly useful in your fight against the alien invaders.

Use a variety of different weapons such as machine guns, shotguns, sub machine guns and pistols.

To fight the butchers, you must equip yourself with a variety of different weapons such as a machine gun, pistol, sub machine gun or shotgun.

The gameplay is intense and you can pick up a wide range of different weapons such as machine guns, pistols and lasers.

Referring to the gun rights case Heller v. District of Columbia, Toobin writes that both «Scalia and Obama endorsed a Second Amendment that protected individual rights to own handguns but with limitations on more dangerous weapons [such as machine guns].

The weapons could be outlawed or subjected to the same rigorous regulation as machine guns.

Performed duties as a machine gun operator in Baquba, Iraq conducting convoy security operations

Not exact matches

As they took cover from the machine guns, they received word that the war would be over in less than an hour.

The company also holds regular events, such as a recent beach party, during which the lunchroom was equipped with a karaoke machine and Super Soaker water guns.

The ATF defines a machine gun as «any weapon which shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily restored to shoot, automatically more than one shot without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger.»

We're talking about actual machine guns, which are about as far from the local gun store inventory as you can get, and much more difficult to buy.

«We would have people call that they were hit by the recession, maybe they lost their job or business wasn't as good as it had been, so they'd want to sell their machine guns» Goepfert says.

Since then, machine guns that can be sold legally are referred to as transferrable, meaning they were previously registered with the National Firearm Registration and Transfer Record, according to the ATF.

Eventually — unless the statutes controlling machine guns change — legal sales will become increasingly rare as their numbers inexorably shrink over time.

Federal grants and the Pentagon's 1033 program accelerated after 9/11, and according to The New York Times, as U.S. forces began to withdraw from Iraq and Afghanistan, police departments across the nation amassed an even greater supply of surplus weapons — tens of thousands of machine guns, 200,000 ammunition magazines, thousands of fatigues and pieces of camouflage, night - vision equipment, and hundreds of silencers, armored cars, and aircraft.

This is the first time the president has weighed in on the issue, but the Justice Department announced they would look into bump stocks as part of a review process on the legal definition of machine guns following the Las Vegas shooting.

Though the practice had been in use since the Korean War, Carlos Hathcock made the use of the M2.50 - caliber machine gun as a long - range sniper weapon a normal practice.

Though older versions are technically legal to own, buy, and sell in many states, brand new «machine guns» — defined by law as a fully automatic weapon capable of firing more than one shot per trigger pull — have not been available for sale or purchase for civilian use in the United States since the Firearm Owners» Protection Act of 1986.

President Trump appeared to take a tiny step toward the narrowest possible gun control measures on Tuesday, saying that he signed a memo directing Attorney General Jeff Sessions to propose a rule banning some devices, such as bump stocks, which he said can turn otherwise legal guns into machine guns.

Government troops firing machine guns mounted on tanks stormed a rebellious town in central Syria before dawn Tuesday as part of military operations aimed at crushing the six - month - old uprising against President Bashar Assad.

At first intimidated and sent away by abusive military guards — who machine - gun the tabernacle — Romero soon returns to pick up the hosts scattered about the floor, as the soldiers fire over his head.

In my opinion as a gun owner I feel everyone whether its a fully automatic machine gun or a BB gun everyone should have to have a check to see if they have a mental illness that would prevent them from owning a gun and I would not have a problem having that done to me and when it comes down to evangelicals speaking out every child of GOD needs to be heard.

Full machine guns, rocket launchers, and hand grenades are legal as far as I know, but I wouldn't doubt that plenty of people would just love to have them to play with.

As he reached the apex of the hillside, he was met by machine - gun fire and heavy shrapnel.

Glenn's introduction to «the healing powers of water» occurred in 1970, when as a Cobra gunship copilot in Vietnam he was hit by a.30 caliber machine - gun slug that passed through his left leg and severed the femoral vein.

On his first day as president of the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association, Bob Kelleher was bitten by a dog and threatened by a man with a machine gun.

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It is the same, essentially, as the sound of a machine gun being fired next to your head.

Already, the lawless void in southern Libya is spreading chaos to other parts of North Africa: weapons such as RPGs, Semtex explosives, assault rifles, antiaircraft machine guns, and grenades have moved from the chaotic remnants of Libya's revolution to the incipient one in Mali, which is currently riven by an Islamist insurgency.

The Trump administration made its first move Saturday to ban the deadly bump stock with a proposed regulation would reclassify the controversial device as a «machine gun,» making it illegal to own, sell or manufacture bump stocks.

@MarkMessa... but it is an argument, or a point that appeals to the typical liberal, and proves as a good counter point to the «guns are only people - killing machines» sentiment that's common on the left.

In his book Modern India 1885 - 1947, the Indian historian Sumit Sarkar wrote: «As early as August 15, Linlithgow had ordered the use of «machine - gunning from air» against crowds disrupting communications around Patna, and aeroplanes were used also in Bhagalpur and Monghyr in Bihar, Nadia and Tamluk in Bengal, and Talcher in Orissa.&raquAs early as August 15, Linlithgow had ordered the use of «machine - gunning from air» against crowds disrupting communications around Patna, and aeroplanes were used also in Bhagalpur and Monghyr in Bihar, Nadia and Tamluk in Bengal, and Talcher in Orissa.&raquas August 15, Linlithgow had ordered the use of «machine - gunning from air» against crowds disrupting communications around Patna, and aeroplanes were used also in Bhagalpur and Monghyr in Bihar, Nadia and Tamluk in Bengal, and Talcher in Orissa.»

In December 2011, oil workers who went on strike for better working conditions were machine - gunned to death by the country's police in an act known as the Zhanaozen massacre.

Three weeks after the deadliest mass shooting in modern history, efforts to ban the gadgets known as bump stocks — which the Las Vegas killer might have used to turn rifles into machines guns — have come to a screeching halt.

As an example we don't sell military surplus machine guns or auto canons.

The State Legislature passed a law in 1931 that said «a person who sells or keeps for sale, or offers, or gives, or disposes of any instrument or weapon of the kind usually known as a machine - gun to any person is guilty of a felony.»

A machine gun is defined as a weapon that can fire a number of shots with one continuous pull of the trigger.