automatic rifle
a type of light machine gun capable of firing automatically or in single shots.
Origin of automatic rifle
1- Also called automatic, machine rifle.
Words Nearby automatic rifle
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How to use automatic rifle in a sentence
They pointed their automatic rifles at the occupants, ordering everyone out.
Minutes later, prosecutors allege, Carrillo ambushed three deputy sheriffs, opening fire with a silenced automatic rifle and hurling a homemade pipe bomb from a concealed position on a steep embankment some 40 feet from the deputies.
“I Felt Hate More Than Anything”: How an Active Duty Airman Tried to Start a Civil War | by Gisela Pérez de Acha, Kathryn Hurd and Ellie Lightfoot, Berkeley Journalism’s Investigative Reporting Program | April 13, 2021 | ProPublicaBy then the S-75 had earned a reputation similar to that of the ubiquitous AK-47 automatic rifle, designed by Mikhail Kalashnikov.
Authorities also found a shotgun and an unregistered AK-47 automatic rifle in the home.
He was eventually made corporal of an automatic-rifle squad.
Average Americans | Theodore Roosevelt
Across his saddle horn rested a long-barrelled automatic rifle, of latest make and pattern.
The Motor Rangers Through the Sierras | Marvin WestBy its very nature the expedition was composed exclusively of infantry divisions carrying the latest type of automatic rifle.
Greener Than You Think | Ward MooreThe fact that each of those Boches was armed with an automatic rifle as precise and effective as his own, Butrel ignored.
'Neath Verdun, August-October, 1914 | Maurice GenevoixYoung Wickson put his hands up first, then turned to confront Biedenbach, who held a thirty-thirty automatic rifle on him.
The Iron Heel | Jack London
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