repeating firearm

noun

1. a firearm capable of discharging a number of shots without reloading.

Example Sentences

By the middle of the century, Colt had worked out the first reliable, mass-produced “repeating firearm,” the pistol version of which remains essentially unchanged today.

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A familiarity with recent scholarship might have produced a more sophisticated depiction of Native Americans’ shrewd responses to repeating firearms.

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Colt, too, made its first repeating firearms, or revolvers, in a four-story brownstone at the base of the falls.

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Before Connecticut became home to what, for now, is perhaps the most infamous mass murder in the country, the state was arguably the place where the mass production of repeating firearms was perfected.

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And in still extant books of the same period we find plans for repeating firearms, and a plain hint of the telephone!

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