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bolt-action
[ bohlt-ak-shuhn ]
adjective
- (of a rifle) equipped with a manually operated sliding bolt.
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of bolt-action1
Example Sentences
In 1970 the Ohio National Guard killed four protesters and wounded nine at Kent State University, firing bolt-action M1 Garand rifles, which held an eight-round magazine and could fire 40 to 50 rounds a minute.
Most of his kills came slowly, a single shot from his bolt-action M40 after hours of waiting.
“And on the third day,†one of the boys drawls, “God created the Remington bolt-action rifle, so that man could fight the dinosaurs. And the homosexuals.â€
Weitzman thought he knew it on sight: It was a Mauser, he reported, a bolt-action rifle originally designed in Germany in the late 19th century and then replicated and churned out by the millions in more than a dozen countries.
Police also found a Norino 7.62x25-millimeter pistol in a van in a Torrance strip mall where Tran killed himself the following day, and a Savage Arms .308 bolt-action rifle in his home.
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