Sentence examples for use of assault from inspiring English sources
The post-ban use of assault weapons by criminals dropped 17to72percentent in test cities.
Serbu used to sell its assault weapons to the New York Police Department, but because of the 2013 NY Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act, which bans civilian use of assault weapons, Serbu no longer cooperates with the NYPD.
A regular soldier can serve years in the Army and hardly ever hear the word "kill" outside bayonet practice, a vestigial relic of the days before the use of assault rifles.
A long range, independent study issued as Congress allowed the ban to expire in 2004 found criminal use of assault weapons had fallen by one-third or more as a share of gun crimes in major jurisdictions.
Senator Dianne Feinstein, the California Democrat who was a principal in the 1994 enactment of a 10-year ban on civilian use of assault rifles, intends to propose its reinstatement.
The nation's police chiefs are finding an alarming increase in criminals' use of assault weapons — the high-powered battlefield rifles that used to be banned, back when the federal government showed greater concern for public safety.
Because of an apparent increase in the use of assault-style rifles against police, the report recommends that law enforcement agencies equip themselves with "AR-style patrol rifles, body armor with hard armor plates, and ballistic helmets, to be deployed during high threat responses".
There is a long tradition of the use of rape and sexual assault for political agendas that have nothing to do with women's safety.
The school curriculum includes weekly classes in which boys are familiarised with the use of Kalashnikov assault rifles and other weapons.
The UK, one of three countries alongside the US and Israel that have attracted most attention for the use of unmanned assault aircraft, also tried to defend its military deployment of the technology.
By the 1980s the trend toward general use of light assault rifles (e.g., the Soviet AK-47 or the U.S. M16) was making the carbine obsolete as a military weapon.
