Sentences with phrase «end of a rifle»

Raising up on one knee, she found the shot no more difficult for her than sinking a pool ball in a corner pocket: tracking with the end of her rifle and the crosshairs of the scope, the cleft formed just behind his right shoulder as he quartered away from her, she did not allow herself to be distracted by the magnificent crown of antlers atop his head — and when he stopped, in his last moment, and swung his head to face her, having sensed her presence, she squeezed the trigger as she had been taught to do back when she was a girl.

The Wii U died quietly, the PlayStation Move never hit its marketing goals, and now Microsoft has taken their ball - and - chain Kinect out back for a personal meeting with the business end of a rifle.

Not exact matches

When a rifle company spent a couple hours taking an enemy machine gun position, losing half of its hundred men in the process, the defenders would be killed in the end, perhaps finished off with bayonets, and everybody at the front understood this.

At the end of February, the company's chairman and CEO Edward W. Stack announced that Dick's Sporting Goods would no longer sell «assault - style rifles, also referred to as modern sporting rifles.»

This accessory replaces the standard stock on a rifle with a piece of plastic or metal molded to the lower end of the gun.

Dick's also said that it would immediately end sales of all assault - style rifles and high - capacity magazines, while Walmart said that it would no longer sell items resembling assault - style rifles, even including air guns and toys.

Dick's Sporting Goods DKS, -3.41 % ending sales of assault rifles after a gunman at a Parkland, Fla., high school killed 17 people is a prime example; so is Starbucks» SBUX, -1.01 % damage - control effort in the wake of a racially charged incident at one of its Philadelphia stores.

They said they would consider other gun control bills before the session ends in March, but none of those measures is expected to go as far as banning assault rifles.

Two weeks after the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, Dick's Sporting Goods, one of the nation's largest sports retailers, is ending sales of assault - style rifles in stores.

Because you haven't seen the end of it as long as people like you care more about their precious automatic rifle than the lives of their fellow citizen.

The effects on Smith were immediate.In the opener, a 34 — 27 loss at Arizona, he completed 23 of 40 passes for 288yards and one touchdown, and against the Rams he was 11 of 22 for 233 yards, including a rifle shot to Bryant that ended in a 72 - yard touchdown, the longestof Smith's NFL career.

Custom buyers can get from him a rifle as gaudy as the Mardi Gras - red Imperial with zebra upholstery that Weatherby drives; but for all that the decked - out Weatherby rifle dazzles the appraising eye, the end result is a thing of beauty in its own assertive way, as American as a loud shirt in Texas.

The hosts made sure of the points eight minutes before the end when Naldo rifled a 30 - yard free - kick into the back of the net.

One of the doughboys was lost or stolen; the other ended up in a parks storage shed after vandalism in which his face was destroyed and his copper rifle stolen.

In 1989 there was a violent end to the Tiananmen Square Protests, in which the Chinese government and Chinese army killed many hundred of its own citizens with assault rifles and tanks.

«Why she's going after this, I don't know,» said Paul Borkowski, who began coaching rifle in the Alden Central School District in 1971 and who just ended his tenure as chairman of the sport for Section VI in Western New York.

(ABC News) Dick's Sporting Goods Inc., one of the largest retailers of its kind in the United States, is taking new steps to curtail the sale of firearms in its 700 - plus stores, including ending sales of assault - style rifles and banning the sale of guns to people younger than 21, the company...

And it's an easy emotional sale if The Other in the story — the Viet Cong in «The Green Berets»; virtually everyone on the receiving end of Chris Kyle's rifle in «American Sniper» — remains a vaguely subhuman blank.

It's about a couple (Lizzy Caplan & Jesse Bradford) who use a jury - rigged alien rifle they liberated from the epic battle at the end of The Avengers to rob banks.

That makes it even more perplexing when, at the end, the film literally removes the rifle from her hand, placing in the hands of a man, instead.

While our first impressions of Ansel might lead us to view him as a humorous character, it quickly becomes clear that this is a man near the end of his rope that is rifled with sadness.

At the end of the film, she is planting crops and firing rifles with determination.

Fans of the real house — the brothers filmed a few days in San Jose but shot mainly on sets built in Australia — will find some things to cherish in the first half of Winchester, but by the time it ends, it's like a spent rifle.

We have had dogs barking when those neighbors decide to target shoot 60 feet from the end of our driveway with high powered deer rifles.

They were too tired after all the traveling to go out to Rifles with the hour and a half or so of light they had left, so they ended up surfing some clean, overhead 4 Bobs while three of us staff soloed empty Rifles.

The winds eventually turned more east and the tide went down, and that was the end of the session at Rifles.

mouse could and is better with sniper rifles on long distances when you need that little touch of precision, and I have to admit that in close quarters controller is better for those sneaky knife kills or smg's hip fire, not to mention that controller is like almost a real flying simulator thing, it has sticks and its perfect for helicopters and planes, in the end you can do even more crazy stunts because all buttons are just right there where you need them!

On the opposite end of the scale the basic assault rifle (Dawnstar) either needs a larger clip or a damage increase to make it useful.

At the end of this level, when you are supposed to use a sniper rifle to shoot Hamza Hishima, do not kill him.

Assigned the task of combating the rebels and smoothing over the droves of enemies including armored troops and robots, you get to fight your way through a multitude of quagmires utilizing your assault rifle to punch your way toward the end of each area.

Scouts are able to move further than any other unit, but their armour is a bit lacking, snipers can't move large distances, but obviously make up for it with the sheer range of their rifles, engineers can repair tanks and disarm mines, whilst tanks are as mighty as you'd imagine but greedily take up two of your command points and have a weakness at their rear end, which you should really take care not to expose to the enemies.

The bus is then hijacked by a group of military guards with rifles, and after the men open fire at the bus, the main character ends up crawling out the back of the bus to escape.

I actually found the shotgun to be more of annoyance as the reload time was way to high and the damage dealt seemed to low and I ended up just not picking it up, preferring my stock rifle.

Sticking Zeb on the base (who, for reference, will not be unlocked in the real version of the game until after this Grievous battle), I knew more of what to expect from the mangy cyborg, and I ended up getting rid of him with the help of Zeb's blaster rifle.

There's momentary pleasure in the way the creatures twitch under the sputtering fire of your pulse rifle, but that fleeting throwback to the movie is exhausted before the end of the first level.

Sniper Elite V2 ($ 29.99 ERP): Available from Feb. 16 — 28 on Xbox 360 — Sniper Elite V2 is a third - person shooter that places you at the midst of World War II, trying to put an end to Germany's V - 2 rocket program with nothing but your wits and your handy sniper rifle.

It's also not possible to continuously shoot at enemies with Joule's rifle due to accuracy progressively reducing, so players need to find the right balance between offense and defense to keep combos going until the end of a battle.

Within weeks, grey wolves in the Northern Rockies will be on the business - end of high - powered hunting rifles.

In one of the photos, a broken glass section of a door window can be seen where it is believed Cruz used the end of his AR - 15 rifle to break through.

The idea that a teacher trained in the use of a handgun would succeed in ending a shooting rampage by someone with an assault rifle is simply an assertion, nothing more, based on dubious assumptions and best - case conditions.

Facing hundreds of young adults demanding justice and an end to assault rifles is life changing for all of us.

The same day, the Republican - controlled state House of Representatives voted against holding a debate over a bill to ban assault - style rifles, making it unlikely the Legislature will consider such a measure before its session ends March 9.

At the end of the day, these devices turn semi-automatic rifles into machine guns.