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It was introduced by Winchester in 1895 in its Model 94 lever action rifle which was the product of famed gun designer John Browning.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 14, 2020
A few weeks later, the boy took that .30-30 lever action into the field and killed his first deer with it — the same as his uncle, his grandfather and great-grandfather.
From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2018
The introduction to the Australian market this year of a shotgun that allows rapid fire using a lever action prompted nationwide discussion.
From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2015
There are many beautifully made hunting rifles, with polished wooden stocks and the lever action of the classic Winchester, featured in so many Westerns.
From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2013
These are very good little padlocks, with an excellent lever action, 'dogged against detent,' as the technical phrase goes; so that only the key properly made for each lock will open it.
From The Red Triangle Being Some Further Chronicles of Martin Hewitt, Investigator by Morrison, Arthur
Its facade was emblazoned with a massive image of an old-fashioned lever-action rifle resting on the word “GUNS” in big, bold lettering.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2023
By the time I was 10, I had graduated to a Winchester lever-action 30-30.
From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2022
He and his brother used to wander the land, shooting at rabbits and tin cans with a lever-action rifle that reminded him of the Old West.
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2021
Busse grew up on a cattle ranch in northwestern Kansas, and as a young boy had a lever-action rifle that he used to shoot rabbits and tin cans.
From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2021
We mourned losing the reliable and easy-to-use turquoise lever-action voting machines, but we were glad other places no longer had to rely on hole-punching clunkers.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 4, 2019
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