Sentences with phrase «more of a rifle»

While it doesn't have straps for a bow (this is more of a rifle hunting backpack), it was such a great deal and clever design, we needed to add it to this list.

If you are disciplined and follow the strategy, you will have the benefit of starting with a shotgun approach at the outset and progressing to more of a rifle - shot as the winners begin to emerge.

Not exact matches

The company also called on lawmakers to pass «common sense gun reform,» including the banning of assault rifles, high - capacity magazines, and bump stocks, enact universal background checks, and more.

An online petition calling for the Vancouver - based outdoor retailer to stop selling Vista Outdoor Inc. - owned brands has garnered more than 20,000 signatures because the company also develops and manufactures firearms similar to the type of rifle used in a recent school shooting.

The Sandy Hook shooting in 2012 had more of a direct impact on Remington, as one of its Bushmaster rifles was used in that massacre.

The AR - 15 is a military - style rifle that fires a single bullet for each pull of the trigger, but can use magazines with 30 rounds or more.

In 1996, a 28 - year - old man walked into a cafe in Port Arthur, Australia, ate lunch, pulled a semi-automatic rifle out of his bag, and opened fire on the crowd, killing 35 people and wounding 23 more.

People who are underage (under 18 for rifles and shotguns, and under 21 for other guns), someone convicted or indicted for a crime punishable by imprisonment of more than one year, fugitives from justice, the severely mentally ill, unlawful users of controlled substances, those convicted of domestic violence, and undocumented immigrants are among some of the categories of people barred from buying a firearm by federal law.

«These guns are much more deadly than traditional bolt - action rifles or traditional shotguns, but they are regulated the same way» in most of the country, said Adam Skaggs, chief counsel of the Giffords center.

A week after a gunman opened fire with an AR -15-style assault rifle at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., killing 17 people and prompting a rash of student - driven lobbying for new gun restrictions, Mr. Trump met for more than an hour with grieving people in search of solutions.

Michael Bloomberg, the founder and primary funder of Everytown for Gun Safety has said quite openly that he is as much or more concerned about handguns as about assault rifles and that «having a gun at home when you have children is really dumb.»

AR -15-style rifles are a civilian variant of a standard service rifle used by the American military for more than a half - century.

This is the president who late in the war pressed his munitions officers toward the creation of an ever more efficient repeating carbine to be used against rifle - carrying CS troops, and, more tellingly, the president who let loose Sherman on Georgia, Sheridan on the Shenandoah, and ratified the long contest and carnage of Grant's 1864 summer campaign.

General Westmoreland (particularly as time went by) was conducting carpet bombing and large - unit movements that made civilian casualties more probable while failing to address the insidious rifle - to - rifle guerilla warfare that was arousing the fears of ordinary Vietnamese villagers and peasants.

Contemporary warfare has in fact taken the form of local conflicts, more often than not civil wars, in which no great alliances of nations are involved; these have been wars fought for reasons based in local rivalries, typically inflamed by historical animosities, ethnic disparity, or religious difference, rather than for reasons of global Realpolitik; they have been fought not with nuclear weapons (or, indeed, other types of weapons of mass - destructive capability) or the latest in military technology, but instead with conventional weaponry, often of old design, and often limited to rifles, knives, grenades, and light, crew - served weapons which individual soldiers can carry on their persons.

Silly those rifles that the liberal media keeps trying to call «assault rifles» are nothing more than hunting version of the real automatic weapons.

So, while there surely also are many more parts of the Bible, and not saying that swords weren't often commonplace, it doesn't really advocate for anyone to run around etc. with any kind of rifle / gun.

During the 90 minute journey, the flexible felon would emerge, squirm around the hold, rifle through the bags of his more conventional fellow passengers looking for their valuables and then get back inside his suitcase.

I can honestly say that while holding my deer rifle or my revolver in my hands I do not require more than 5 rounds to defend myself from 99 % of all events that would affect my family.

And so the list goes, with the actual numbers changing somewhat from year to year, yet the fact that more people are killed with blunt objects each year remains constant.For example, in 2011, there was 323 murders committed with a rifle but 496 murders committed with hammers and clubs.While the FBI makes is clear that some of the «murder by rifle» numbers could be adjusted up slightly, when you take into account murders with non-categorized types of guns, it does not change the fact that their annual reports consistently show more lives are taken each year with these blunt objects than are taken with Feinstein's dreaded rifle.Another interesting fact: According to the FBI, nearly twice as many people are killed by hands and fists each year than are killed by murderers who use rifles.

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.

So we have the players to score a range of goals — headers, set pieces, tap - ins, placed shots from the edge of the box and rifled thunderbolts from 20 yards or more.

Partly because of the boss's keen interest, Timken engineers developed a barrel steel which, Weatherby says, is more stable than other rifle steels, more easily worked, gives better accuracy and is so hard that chrome lining no longer is necessary to extend barrel life for his hot loads.

Then canon blasts and rifle fire will erupt in downtown Naperville Saturday and Sunday as part of Civil War Days, a two - day reenactment from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Naper Settlement, 523 S. Webster St.. While the North and South will clash daily in impressive battles, complete with period costumes and weaponry, the real stars of the spectacle will be the more than 300 re-enactors.

The problem is, of course, that the government in Iran has access to more than just rhetorical ammunition: they have men carrying rifles with real bullets.

The new gun legislation will force more than a million people to register their rifle of face a felony.

More than 80 percent of Americans at least somewhat favor a ban on «bump stocks» that make rifles fire much like automatic weapons.

«I am hopeful that permanently permitting the use of rifles for big game hunting will attract even more enthusiasts to the area, providing sportsmen and women in Seneca County with the kind of hunting opportunities that used to be accessible only in other regions in the state,» he said.

Jorge Pichardo faces 146 counts of criminal charges for selling more than a dozen guns, including a semi-automatic rifle.

Once implemented, the bands will cover a wide range of firearms and calibres, including air rifles, rimfire rifles, and the more common fox and deer calibre rifles.

State Police in New York need more staff and more patrol rifles amid the series of mass shootings across the country, the union representing the officers said.

The Police Benevolent Association advocated for the purchase of AR - 15s, which fire a more powerful bullet, but management decided to buy a rifle that uses the same.40 caliber bullet as the handguns officers use already.

In addition to the waiting period and an increase in the minimum age, the bill also would ban the possession or sale of bump stocks, which allow semiautomatic rifles to fire more rapidly.

Here's perhaps the best proof of the flexibility the governor has in state spending: for all the uproar among gun rights advocates over the SAFE Act ammunition database, no one has ever identified a provision of the budget which funds the state's separate rifle registration system, which had tallied more than 44,000 records by 2015 without ever once being mentioned in the governor's budget requests.

«The concern is that they're occurring much more frequently and are becoming much more deadly because of the type weapons being used,» Bratton said, calling assault rifles «weapons of war.»

There were 30 of us and out of that, more than 20 carried one AK47 rifle each, but I did not carry any gun.

Gibson, a retired Army colonel who says he owns a couple of rifles and occasionally hunts, maintains there are sufficient laws on the books to control guns, and that the issues are more about mental health and public safety.

Washington — The Department of Defense has awarded the Remington Arms factory in Ilion a contract worth $ 80 million to produce more than 5,000 sniper rifles for the U.S. military, Rep. Richard Hanna said today.

And you can use it on nearly any kind of weapon you own, including rifles, machine guns, hand guns, and more.

Traveling more slowly now, at just twice the speed of a rifle shot, the neutron ricochets back to the TND.

To try to produce a more quantifiable method, Les Folio, then at the Uniformed Services University in Bethesda, Maryland, and colleagues, asked a marksman to shoot six shots from a rifle at a distance of 45 metres into each of two model legs.

Instead of acting like «shotgun blasts,» as the older systemic drugs do, the biologics are «much more like a rifle shot, where theres a whole lot less collateral damage and fewer side effects,» says David M. Pariser, MD, president - elect of the American Academy of Dermatology.

If you're doing a lot of exercise, you may need a little more carbs and again, find a good functional medicine practitioner if that's helping a bit but it's not getting you over the hump 100 %, reach out to someone like myself or Evan so we can get some testing done and we can pull out the sniper rifle so to speak and get really specific versus, you know, just general run - of - the - mill adrenal protocols.

After so much rifling I did manage to find two pairs of sandals that you'd know I've been lusting over if you saw one of my previous posts, and the fact that they were on sale makes them even more worth being trampled by Thai teenagers and mopey boyfriends.

► A woman carries a rifle down to a road on her farm where she sees a man wearing a biohazard - radiation suit and he shouts and cries for joy when he finds clean air; the woman follows the man to a pond beneath a waterfall and watches him, as he stands in it, bare from the waist up until he falls down, ill and jabbering nonsensically until she points a rifle at him, lowers it and he points a handgun at her and fires, missing her; the woman tells the man to get out of the radiation - contaminated water and he startles, climbs out and scans himself with a Geiger counter that clicks loud and fast as he spits water toward the camera followed by watery yellowish vomit and she helps him to his handcart on the road, where she administers an anti-radiation injection (please see the Substance Use category for more details).

Goeth's hobby of playing sniper, casually targeting his prisoners with a high - powered rifle, is presented so matter - of - factly that it becomes much more terrible than it would be if given more lingering attention.

No, Corlaie Fargeat's hyper - confident debut is something much scarier and more satisfying than that, a fact that becomes discomfortingly clear once two of Richard's bros stop by uninvited, fresh from hunting and armed with some high - powered rifles.

Packing in little more than a ten - pound bag of rice, a.22 caliber rifle, some ammo, a book of local flora and fauna, and some heady literature, Chris is woefully and intentionally under - provisioned for his Alaskan adventure.

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.

Armed with little more than a knife and two handles of vodka, an on - edge Hollywood director sets out to the Mojave Desert, where he finds a drifter brandishing a rifle and claiming to be the Devil.