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The receiver is relatively heavy compared with the rest of the rifle, but is still lighter than that of a similarly sized rifle.

His left hand reached up to his shoulder, fingertips just brushing the barrel of the rifle strapped to his shoulder.

A herd of twenty caribou passed by within rifle range. He felt like running after them, but he knew such an effort would be senseless.

Malone whirled to see a silhouetted figure standing a hundred feet away, perched where the belvedere met the cemetery wall, rifle in hand.

The enemy soldier had raised his rifle and was about to shoot when my bullet stopped him cold.

Until the Army resolves all that, it's going to be some time before smartphones are as much a part of the Army as the M4 rifle.

Bedell lay down in an old box filled with hay, his rifle and crutches beside him.

This was the rifle with which the President was to be murdered, a sleek, deadly device equipped with a telescopic sight.

This represents the earliest citation that The Oxford English Dictionary has for a long gun being referred to as a rifle.

Although the rifle dropped a little towards the foremost of his pursuers he did not aim or fire.

The next day, they dress me in Chinese uniform, give me a rifle and take a dozen more pictures.

He knew there were no seas or ships in the heart of the barren lands, just as he had known there was no cartridge in the empty rifle.

Karen was assigned an elaborately scoped sniper rifle, her marksmanship scores being the best of any of them.

He wants someday to be able to rifle through mail as quickly as his wife and "round file" the piles of junk mail that comes across his desk.

Du was one of the favorites in the 10-meter air rifle last Saturday, but she finished a shocking fifth.

At the end of the indenture, the laborer was given a rifle, an axe and a bag of corn, and went off to make his own farm in the wilderness.

They hitched Bettie's mare alongside Mr. Sam's mule. Bedell lay down in an old box filled with hay, his rifle and crutches besides him.

He also ran errands for the ward and in his spare time made me a cigarette lighter out of an empty Austrian rifle cartridge.

Later, terrorist groups unaffiliated with any national liberation movement would also find it relatively easy to acquire the assault rifle.

He held a rifle in his hand and pointed to a precise spot on her head where the bullet would have to hit so that she would fall.

With the rifle I followed him in the sights. But every time I got a bead on him, tree foliage got in the way.

But thankfully, my organization has arranged for someone to meet me with a military uniform, a cap, and boots, and even a rifle.

I felt his heart beating like the heart of a dying bird, shot with someone's rifle. . .

He died of a wound in the brain caused by a rifle bullet that was fired at him as he was riding through downtown Dallas in a motorcade.

He struck the butt of his rifle on the bottom of the scow with a species of defiance.

Witnesses at the time said he killed himself rather than surrender using a rifle given to him by his friend, the Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

The fire was once more opened from the woods, and a rifle- ball sang through the doorway, and knocked the doctor's musket into bits.

A close friend of mine put the muzzle of his rifle between the German's still crying eyes and pulled the trigger.

The police searched Owens's house soon after, and found a rifle with a scope attached.

police said nowak was found with an air rifle and a small knife , as well as a wig and trench coat to apparently disguise herself.

Now, dressed in a blue uniform and with a rifle over his shoulder, the Prisoner marched boldly up and down in front of the camp.

Dashing down the rifle, he drew out a dagger and streaked towards the enemy soldier.

Carpenter shuffled to the laundry room, where he kept an old, unloaded rifle that he used to shoot squirrels, he said.

Following them to the attic, he found a wounded Union soldier, with a rifle at his side.

His head is tilted in the direction of the camera, his hand on his belly, his rifle propped up vertically against the rocks.

Soldiers found a man with a bulletproof jacket inside the vehicle, along with an AK-47 rifle and three ammunition clips.

He said he watched it through his rifle's telescopic lens and described it as very large and without seams, nuts or bolts.

If conventional marketing could be compared to a shotgun approach, one company official said, Rolls-Royce's was more like a sniper rifle.

But no matter what else he might do with his hands, love a woman, build a house, change his son's diaper, his hands remember the rifle. . .

He found a wounded Union soldier , with a rifle at his side .

The top lobbyist for the National Rifle Association said the terrorist watch list has poor integrity.

And I swear to you, after this is all over, I will never touch a rifle again.

The dark figure of a man stepped from the laurels and pointed a rifle at his breast .

My neighbours reported me to the police for firing my rifle in the garden .

This was a very powerful bolt-action rifle, capable of piercing the armour of many early war tanks.

The plane blasted into the air like a bullet shot out of a rifle, and soon we were at 2, 000 feet and climbing.

A rifle is usually classified on the basis of the type of action it employs and on the size or calibre of ammunition it fires.

French police areinvestigating an incident where two cyclists in the Tour de France were shot at and slightly injured with an air rifle.

A young woman with piercing blue eyes and a hunting rifle takes us to meet her friend Amoq, a veteran of North Pole expeditions.

Our troops barraged against the enemy with a torrent of rifle fire.

Peter lay down in an old box, his rifle beside him.

It's like when I was asked by a policeman (during World War Two) why I was on crutches after I got an air rifle shot in the leg.

I could hardly wait for those dry, cold mornings, that cup of hot coffee and then the hike over fresh-fallen snow, a fine rifle in my hand.

A law enforcement source said the scene inside was awful with rifle casings littering the scene. The casings from a 223 caliber rifle.

A red-cheeked young sentry put a bayonetted rifle athwart his chest, and was deaf to his protests in sputtering Russian.

He took careful aim, squinting down the rifle barrel.

"Do not point that goddamned rifle, " I said.

That the counter will be closed, and the applicant facing a loaded rifle and told to leave, is not considered.

Sweating, tremulous, the youngster sat down, the rifle still held below his jaw. Ogren began talking: girls, music, love.

The other was the Objective Individual Combat Weapon, also known as the Selective Assault Battle Rifle and designated XM29.

Also able to fire razor sharp spines like an assault rifle.

Israeli police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld says the attacker was armed with a Kalashnikov rifle and was killed on the scene.

He heard a second report, and saw one of the sentinels with his rifle at his shoulder, a light cloud of blue smoke rising from the muzzle.

I'd been shot with an air rifle on the right side of my head.

Marine Corps spokesman, said the corporal gold name belong to the same row with the victims, the use of a K-2 rifle.

Bulletproof glass, demonstration by the best rifle man of the New York police, 1931.

Police say they recovered a shotgun and a 22 caliber rifle with a telescopic sight. Bird had a license to own such firearms.

A husband who used his semi-naked wife for target practice with an air rifle has been jailed.

Mr. Whittenburg said he shot the bear three times with a rifle he carries to take down wild pigs.

A rifle and a harpoon gun were hanging from the wall of his rickety shack.

Or will it have the impact of an air rifle pellet, rather than the artillery barrage we now need?

One infantryman had a rifle with a scope and could pick off enemy soldiers at quite a distance.

The shot of a rifle loses its sharpness in the moist air, and its smoke moves in a tardy little cloud towards the green rise.

you have a better chance of throwing a hand full of sniper rifle bullets and killing the enemy , than shooting them at him.

For Those Who Bear Arms The National Rifle Association offers a few scholarships to its junior members.

an oily rag attached by a cord to a weight; is pulled through the barrel of a rifle or handgun to clean it.

The body lay near the window, where the beast had left it when frightened away by the flash and report of the rifle.

I sent back for my small rifle and poured shot after shot into his heart and down his throat. They seemed to make no impression.

He braced himself, feeling his hands slick with perspiration on the Wolverine rifle.

With support from with the National Rifle Association (NRA), Mr D'Cruz is now a plaintiff in two federal lawsuits filed in Texas.

Rounds of automatic rifle fire crackled into the air throughout the day, punctuated by the intermittent sounds of explosions.

As he targets his rifle in position, Teddy Hanlin taunts Jack about the suicide of his partner's wife.

You just cannot rifle through a dead dwarves pockets with a handful of Two Handed Mace.

I stood guard with a rifle on the bank of the river.

There was a tremendous need to influence and create relationships, to go beyond pointing a rifle at someone and saying 'go do it'.

He was equipped, the police said, with an automatic rifle and a handgun.

Imagine , they'll never have to rifle through piles of paper looking for an old calendar again !

Figure comes with Brute Plasma Rifle and Spike Grenade, and features glow-in-the-dark paint.

The enraged bear charged toward him, he dropped his rifle and started running for the cabin as fast as he could.

The guard picked up the rifle and shot at him.

Because it was wartime , the British . 303 rifle was just all over the whole country .

I could not fault her logic, but I tried to calm her and decided it was time to fetch Ralph and his rifle.

The key will be control, let the Mammoths tackle the armor and use the Rifle Teams as a meat-shield and for killing enemy infantry.

In many games, we can see that some athletes thin body, but the ball popped Shitailichen, ball like a shell leaving a rifle.

The author is of the opinion that there are of course pros and cons to each family of rifle, and I refuse to engage in what is "best" .

Article number two of the constitutional amendments provides you and me the right to own a rifle or a shotgun.

They say it appeared that he had been trying to buy an assault rifle .

Thank God for the iron in the blood of our fathers, the men who upheld the wisdom of Lincoln and bore sword or rifle in the armies of Grant!

Dennis is not big enough to hold up the rifle.

the handle of a handgun or the butt end of a rifle or shotgun or part of the support of a machine gun or artillery gun.

One of them struck me twice on the head with the butt of his rifle.

the accuracy of the Kentucky Rifle was a key factor in defeating the British.

The hostage had a rifle levelled at his head.

she stood for a while with the rifle in one hand , peering into the strong sunlight.

We find this to be incentive enough to always zoom while firing your sniper rifle.

The weapon system was the standard sniper rifle issued to the Red Army and most Warsaw Pact nations during the cold war.

Tom gave the rifle to another of the older boys who wanted to try, and he also fired a bullet into her head.

When on safari in Africa I used to sleep with my rifle close to hand because lions would sometimes stray into the CamP looking for food.

While one man held me to the floor with the rifle against my neck, the bandits started tearing the camper apart, yelling in Spanish.

There is a bust of Jiang Qing in the shape of a rifle (power comes out of the barrel of a gun, said Chairman Mao).

I would clutch my rifle tightly to my heart, and think again of that very first day we met.

His boots and rifle were upside down, hanged on it was his helmet which didn't protect him from the shrapnel.

Aaron began carrying a rifle whenever he was out with the sheep.

He steps out of his dugout, grabs his sniper rifle and smashes it to the tree.

A trademark used for a repeating rifle or pistol .

Your rifle's accessory is a small tin can with a funny lid, but it's buried under an apartment building somewhere in Budapest.

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.

He was convicted of killing an Israeli in front of his four-year-old daughter in 1979 and then smashing her head with a rifle butt.

And knock like a rifle-butt against the door.

This cop comes after me with a rifle.

All of these require wearing skis and using poles for balance and propulsion, with the biathlon requiring a rifle for shooting targets.

Slowly, the daylight faded. There was a lull in the artillery barrage, although the heavy rifle fire continued.

He told me that he's only a rifle shot, then quickly ran away.

He was heavily armed - an air rifle in one hand, a wooden dagger in the other.

Kurt picked up a rifle and joined Ash and Olivia, combining fire to penetrate the over shields of the remaining Elite solders on the stairs.

My mother heard the noise and came downstairs . We lifted the captain's head. His eyes were closed and his face was ater- rifle colour.

This rifle is said to have been developed in response to the Munich Massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

The officer was fatally shot with an assault rifle yesterday morning while responding to the robbery in northeast Philadelphia .

When Groucho Marx's son Arthur was small, he wanted an air rifle.

"There are children and adults on the bus, " he said, adding the gunman had an M-16 assault rifle.

The gunman was the 55-year-old police captain Rolando Mendoza who was dismissed, and he was armed with an M-16 assault rifle.

Work of the separate motorized rifle brigade dislocated in the Arctic Circle is far from being simple.

Rifleman: He is equipped with a rifle and has a wide line of sight , a wide range , and a low rate offire .

The shells are launched by a standard rifle grenade and can travel up to 100 yards to reach its target.

The soldier grinned, moved his rifle aside and let me enter, sure now that I was truly an American scholar.

Unlike his colleagues, the pale 21-year-old held no rifle in his hands.

Using his rifle as a prop, an actor portraying a government soldier stands over the bodies of "slaughtered" peasants.

Authorities say he then broke into a deputy's car and stole, among other things, an assault rifle.

In 1938, Simonov designed the PTRS-41, a magazine fed, anti-tank rifle with a scaled down version of it becoming the SKS rifle.

He took his rifle to shoot wild duck.

He was dressed in military uniform and was holding a machine gun, an M16 assault rifle, and a pistol.

For a criminal that lady has no idea how to handle an assault rifle.

They did not like me, but with the magical rifle in my hands I was momentarily worth watching.

It was a horse trade in which the the owner of the worse animal gave a rifle to make the trade equal.

The front part of the barrel in the standard version assault rifle is left unobstructed so that it can launch rifle grenades.

U. S. Army soldiers in Afghanistan are testing out a "smart" rifle that uses computer-chip-embedded rounds that can detonate behind walls.

But the National Rifle Association (NRA), the main gun lobby, vastly prefers him to Mr Obama.

Surely there's some overlap between the border-security crowd and card-carrying members of the National Rifle Association.

Henriette saw the weaving figure of an Apache warrior reel nakedly on a pony and rush by with a rifle raised.

Then he must make a few shots while landing, hide the rifle under the reserve parachute, regroup and finally land.

She was undeterred by several people yelling and by a hunter shooting a rifle to scare her away.

He used an anesthetic rifle to inject the drug into the body of the mad elephant.

A classification in the U. S. Army and Marine Corps for the lowest of three ratings of rifle proficiency.

In its " Rifleman 's Creed" a recruit swears before God to treat his rifle as his best friend, his brother and the saviour of his life.

There were three or four red berets on top of her, and one had pushed his rifle into her [vagina].

He shot a grizzly bear, then looked up from his rifle sights and saw the steam gushing from the ground.

The dog's owner was getting into the rear seat of a four-wheel drive vehicle with the rifle next to him when the animal jumped in.

The surprise attack flaunts the specialty of American rifle men in the War of Independence.

Police said they recovered a shotgun and a . 22 caliber rifle with a telescopic sight.

Her umbrella had a broken spoke. She looked liked a wounded soldier, carrying her rusted rifle walking weakly.

Suddenly, I saw a crouching enemy soldier moving up toward us, holding an enormous rifle with a fixed bayonet.

They had seen the rifle and were all shouting excitedly that I was going to shoot the elephant.

An M4 rifle stands upright, its bayonet lodged into a felt-covered wooden desk in front of the flags, the pistol grip facing the audience.

Even so, the overall tone of this "biography" of the rifle is nostalgic, heroic, almost celebratory .

"We are holding the city together, " says one of Mr Ouattara's former fighters, using his rifle to direct traffic in the city centre.

But the hallucination persisted. He fought it off for hours, then threw his rifle open and was confronted with emptiness.

Fixed occasional crash after scoring a critical hit in the head with a Railway Rifle.

We describe the behavior of large objects like stones or rifle bullets in terms of definite laws.

A sniper rifle is a good example of a different class of weapon, which can drastically alter the way someone could play a game.

It provides a much heavier rate of fire than an assault rifle such as the ubiquitous AK47 but is still light enough for one person to carry.

A rifle is usually fired from the shoulder.

The pirates drew alongside the liner in a small speedboat on Saturday night and sprayed the bridge with automatic rifle fire.

Politicians on both sides, he says, have been "captured" by the vocal National Rifle Association (NRA).

I picked up my thermos and the scraps of paper from my sandwiches. Then I tucked my rifle under my arm and started walking back to my car.

Stands the posture by the small-bore rifle to be away from 10 meters moving targets fires.

today , biathlon is considered a combination of two sports : cross - country skiing and rifle shooting.

Today, we think of the National Rifle Association as a no-compromises opponent of gun control.

The tour bus with 25 occupants was seized in Manila by a former senior inspector, Rolando Mendoza, armed with an assault rifle.

The children practiced shooting Mr. Thondup's old Winchester rifle. He also taught them how to prune his prize roses.

In lieu of a rifle, they collected thirty or forty thousand Border Region dollars from each person or the equivalent in grain or cotton.

The weapon features a slightly longer barrel than that of the standard assault rifle and a 75-round cartridge drum.

In an instant the guerillas were kicking and beating him with their rifle butts.

One boy raised his hand, took the rifle, aimed, and fired a bullet into her head at point-blank range while we all stood and watched.

Finally, I decided to shoot it with my 0. 22-caliber rifle, risking the possibility that the shot might ricochet and hit me.

The position of a rifle or other weapon when ported.

A Marine has neatly aligned bullets on his bed as he cleans his rifle at Musa Qala base on Jan.

The feedback from U. S. soldiers in Afghanistan will be used to tweak the rifle before it is given to a larger number of troops in 2011.

He is thesuperman as loner, able to survive in a hostile world because he'shandy with sword, fist, rifle and ax.

A police officer's rifle rests on the front seat.

Unlike the standard QBZ95 assault rifle, the ARC95 cannot be attached with a grenade launcher.

Today, my violent housemate qualified for a gun license. She picks up her bolt-action rifle on Wednesday.

He was killed before he could hold up the rifle.

I got shot six times with a 762 assault rifle and I'm still alive.

At the same moment, he pressed the trigger of his rifle. The flame leaped forth.

Bettie watched him lower the rifle and brush the hay out of his hair.

Kurt popped up with his assault rifle and opened fire. Ash and Olivia were at his side, MA5Ks spitting rounds down the staircase.

A condom can be used to cover the muzzle of your rifle.

So, it's like using a shot gun with lots of pellets instead of a rifle with a single bullet.

the young lieutenant asked, picking up Cabe's rifle and holding it in a neutral position.

This is not a guide for those who run around with a sniper rifle as its a one shot kill. I do not do that.

The weapons used by the Rangers include anti-materiel rifle, Ranger Sequoia, hunting revolver, brush gun, among others.

The ruling Congress party kept the crowds at a distance, or got the police to disperse them with tear gas and rifle fire.

Covert Ops plays a more stealth role with the aid of a sniper rifle.

When out of ammo, your rifle makes a supreme war club, pike, boat oar, tent pole, or firewood.

He noted that the Russian AK-47 rifle, a weapon of choice among insurgents around the world, was invented during a pig year.

your gauss rifle is only a tool. it is a hard heart that kill.

Before God, I swear this creed. My rifle and myself are the defenders of my country.

The couple move to where they could see her face in profile; and how her stare was aimed like a rifle at the farthest horizon.

during the war they turned the bowling alleys into rifle ranges.

Sergeant Kwiatek lifts his rifle to shoot the sniper but then discovers another sniper about thirty meters to his right.

I was a poor shot with a rifle and the ground was soft mud into which one would sink at every step.

Youngblood's hand goes to his holster. The tower guards CLICK-CLACK their rifle bolts.

"I'm going to kill myself, " the gunman announced, slipping the barrel of the rifle beneath his chin.

The CAR95 compact rifle has a shortened barrel and therefore cannot fire rifle grenade or be fitted with a grenade launcher.

The sniper rifle features a unique shell ejection port that is not found on any other sniper rifle.

To preserve ammunition usage and minimize power requirements, the rifle uses a capacitor system to fire in short, controlled bursts.

The squad leader of Halo 3: ODST, Buck comes with an Assault Rifle and features a McFarlane ODST figure first -- a removable helmet.

The conventional submachinegun will be substituted for by the small caliber assault rifle.

This rifle has a Harris-type magazine with external latch, which controlled the movement of the magazine follower.

Linda's sniper rifle was to her shoulder.

When stunning is accomplished with a 22 -caliber rifle, the bullet should penetrate the skull and strike the brain.

This made use of a modified rifle with a blank cartridge to propel the grenade.

The rifle firing position had the vertical potential, kneels the potential and lies the potential.

A member of the National Revolutionary Militia shows off her rifle during Militia Day in Caracas, Venezuela.

When out of ammo your rifle will nominally pass as a club.

They took 60 prominent locals hostage and seized the town's United States arsenal and its rifle works.

The TKB-022 assault rifle is gas-operated weapon with annular gas piston located around the barrel.

The immediate cause of the mutiny was the new Enfield rifle.

I must fire my rifle true. I must shoot straighter than any enemy who is trying to kill me. I must shoot him before he shoots me.

The American Rifle Association's lobbying the congress is powerful and influential.

With the help of a sales associate, a customer begins the paperwork necessary to buy a hunting rifle.

The rifle system as a whole is quite long (nearly 50 inches) and features a fixed stock.

The white man seemed to take counsel from their customs, and relinquishing his grasp of the rifle, he also remained silent and reserved.

Oh, he was the champion of the Men's 10m Air Rifle in Athens.

You can repair your rifle by taking it to a certified gunsmith, it's under warranty!

An automatic rifle gives the special operations soldier the same abilities as a rifleman.

Libyan rebel shoots his rifle in the air at a destroyed army barracks in Benghazi.

Others died in police stations, or in nearby woods, where their mutilated bodies testified to truncheon and rifle-butt injuries.

Jean Valjean had returned Enjolras' rifle, but he had his own gun.

SCAR will improve mission performance of SOF by providing them with a reliable and accurate rifle.

The fruit and bark contain an anesthetic substance. The wood is used for furniture and rifle butts.

General Dynamics was involved in latter stages and H&K had plans to produce the rifle at a plant in Georgia.

If you do not document your schemas, users have two other options - they can rifle through your source code or refer to a separate document.

He picked up a rifle, aimed at the moving ducks and pulled the trigger quickly shot after shot, and he won a big doll!

This week America will resound to the deafening roar of automatic rifle fire being discharged by Palin across its airwaves.

In the back of the car was a rifle I'd purchased especially for this occasion.

Hearing the explosions, the whistling of rockets flying around, and the blasts of the plasma rifle are thrilling!

The rifle companies similarly had three rifle platoons and a 60mm mortar section or platoon.

Behind the hedgerows, they dug rifle pits and tunneled openings for machinegun positions in each corner.

Gaines eventually pins Jack down with a constant barrage of rifle fire.