repeating firearm

Repeating firearms, however, were superior in turn, and the Comanches adopted them when they could.

"But he was also a genius who produced a revolver that became the world's first practical repeating firearm."

A magazine is an ammunition storage and feeding device within or attached to a repeating firearm.

Mounted archery remained an effective tactical system in open country until the introduction of repeating firearms.

While the Rocket Ball provided the means of making practical repeating firearms, it was not an ideal solution.

The firing pin or striker is generally located in the bolt of a repeating firearm.

I learned that we nearly destroyed the bison after the repeating firearm and the transcontinental railroad were developed.

"Whiskey and repeating firearms were very pop-ular with the redskins.

A revolver is a repeating firearm that has a revolving cylinder containing multiple chambers and at least one barrel for firing.

A lever-action rifle, a pump-action shotgun, and most bolt-action rifles are good examples of repeating firearms.

His was the first practical revolver and the first practical repeating firearm due to progress made in percussion technology.

Here, as across the country, a generation of men had emerged out of the Civil War inured to bloodshed and equipped with repeating firearms.

It was the first commercial repeating firearm employing a revolving cylinder with multiple chambers aligned with a single, stationary barrel.

He happened to rise as a leader just as the whites acquired their own transformative technology: the railroad and the repeating firearm.

Early 12 gauge popularity for sporting purposes produced a large number of repeating firearms designs readily adaptable to military purposes.

Marcot, Roy A. Spencer Repeating Firearms 1995.

A repeating firearm or "repeater" is a firearm that holds more than one cartridge and can be fired more than once between chargings.

In contrast, other repeating firearms, such as lever-action, pump-action, and semi-automatic, have a single firing chamber and a mechanism to load and extract cartridges into it.

Kirk extended Lenos' long-barreled Proctorate repeating firearm butt-first toward the Prime Proctor.

The first use of caseless ammunition for use in a repeating firearm was the Rocket Ball projectile patented by Walter Hunt in 1848.

The Winchester Repeating Arms Company was a prominent American maker of repeating firearms, located in New Haven, Connecticut.

Since the magazine is an essential part of most repeating firearms, they are sometimes subject to regulation by gun control laws seeking to limit the number of cartridges they hold.

The Kalthoff repeater was a type of repeating firearm that appeared in the seventeenth century and remained unmatched in its fire rate until the mid-nineteenth century.

In March 1884 he was made a member of the Commission des Armes à Répétition or Commission for repeating firearms.