bolt-action

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Example sentences from the Web for bolt-action

• This would force people to use only bolt-action rifles, pistols, and shotguns.

  You Can't Save Gun Control With Word Games|Megan McArdle|December 19, 2012|DAILY BEAST

• Is it a fair statement on my part that on all the occasions that you recall hunting with Lee he employed a bolt-action rifle?

  Warren Commission (1 of 26): Hearings Vol. I (of 15)|The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy

• Chassepot, shas′po, n. the kind of bolt-action breechloading rifle adopted by the French army in 1866.

  Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D)|Various

• He either used that rifle or a single-shot, bolt-action rifle, another .22 that was out at the farm.

  Warren Commission (1 of 26): Hearings Vol. I (of 15)|The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy