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machine pistol
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machine pistol
n.
A lightweight automatic submachine gun designed to be fired when held by one or two hands.
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Noun1.machine pistol - a fully automatic pistolmachine pistol - a fully automatic pistol; a small submachine gun
submachine gun - machine gun that is a portable automatic firearm


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Masked bandits armed with machine pistols and grenades stormed the vessel at dawn on the Peruvian Amazon.
Thompson also denies an allegation of possessing five 9mm automatic machine pistols without authority, as well as a similar offence involving a quantity of ammunition.
A spokesman for Soca said 22 handguns, six machine pistols, 20 silencers andmore than 1,000 rounds of ammunition had been found during the "intelligenceled operation" which began last year.
 
 
 
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