Sentence examples for Rifles from high-quality English sources.

• Rifles became more accurate at long range.

• Farmers, who use rifles to shoot pests and predators, are especially aggrieved.

• The law outlaws military-style semiautomatic weapons and assault rifles, and violators face five years in prison.

• Consumers legally own millions of AR-15 style rifles, which gun enthusiasts modify and adapt with different accessories.

• During the Great War, huge quantities of rifles were built.

• The mutineers were incensed at alleged discrimination against the Rifles' soldiers.

• Many assault rifles have attachments for grenade launchers, sniperscopes, and bayonets.

• They replace Lee-Enfield bolt-action rifles of the sort used by Britain in the second world war.

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• The first Dreyse rifles were adopted by the Prussian army in 1843 and were used in campaigns in 1849 and 1864.

• For durability, safety, and efficiency, the 1898 Mauser was probably the epitome of bolt-action military rifles.

• The service wants the new rifles to "replace all current bolt-action sniper rifles in the Marine Corps."

• An image of them that went viral, in July of 2015, showed a dozen young men in fatigues, holding Kalashnikov assault rifles.

• Between 1937 and 1945, the Springfield Armory and the Winchester Repeating Arms Company produced 4.04 million of these rifles.

• This new projectile could be loaded into dirty rifles with ease, and, because it was not deformed while loading, it had greater accuracy.

• The Marine Corps, which is also buying MRAD rifles for the Advanced Sniper Rifle (ASR) program, estimated that each one would cost about $16,000.

• In the years after World War II, the assault rifle replaced high-powered bolt-action and semiautomatic rifles to become the standard infantry weapon of modern armies.

Rifles sentence examples

• Lever-action and slide- or pump-action rifles are less commonly used in the 21st century, but after World War II semiautomatic rifles became popular for hunting in the United States.

• In those countries where assault rifles can be purchased in the civilian market, their sale is subject to various restrictions, such as the elimination of automatic action and of the capacity to fire high-performance military ammunition.

• The Fifth Fleet said in a statement that the haul included "dozens of advanced Russian-made anti-tank guided missiles, thousands of Chinese Type 56 assault rifles, and hundreds of PKM machine guns, sniper rifles and rocket-propelled grenades launchers.

• Because they are light and portable yet still able to deliver a high volume of fire with reasonable accuracy at modern combat ranges of 1,000–1,600 feet (300–500 metres), assault rifles have replaced the high-powered bolt-action and semiautomatic rifles of the World War II era as the standard infantry weapon of modern armies.