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buttstock

or butt-stock

[ buht-stok ]

noun

  1. the part of the stock located behind the breech mechanism of a firearm.


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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of buttstock1

First recorded in 1905–10; butt 1 + stock
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The rifle used in the shooting also had a “Palestine” sticker on the buttstock.

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But the gun purchased by Mr. Alissa, while carrying some of the hallmarks of a longer AR-15, had instead been marketed as a pistol — a gun that can be shot with one hand but which comes with a stabilizer that looks similar to the buttstock of a rifle.

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The rifle incorporates lots of ways to tailor to your preferences, from M-LOK attachment points and a Picatinny scope base to QD sling points and a configurable buttstock.

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Johnson turned forward just as the state trooper plunged the buttstock of his rifle into Johnson’s face, shattering his teeth and cracking his jaw.

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“There was another tremendous explosion that knocked both of us back into a wall, and I got hit in the chest right across the buttstock with about three-quarters of a human arm,” Plumlee said.

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