Rifles - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: riflesExpress rifle
A sporting rifle for use at short ranges employing a large charge of powder and a light short bullet giving a high initial velocity and consequently a flat trajectory It is usually of moderately large caliber...
Minie rifle
A rifle adapted to minie balls...
Rifling
The act or process of making the grooves in a rifled cannon or gun barrel...
Snider rifle
A breech loading rifle formerly used in the British service so called from the inventor...
Polygrooved
Having many grooves as a polygrooved rifle or gun referring to the rifling...
Waging war
Waging war, means and can only mean 'waging war in the manner usual in war'. In order to support a conviction on such charge, it is not enough to show that the persons charged have continued to obtain possession of an armoury and have, when called upon to surrender it, used the rifles and ammuni-tion so obtained against the King's troops, Mir Hasan Khan v. State, AIR 1951 Pat 60.The expression 'waging war' means and can only mean waging war in the manner usual in war. In other words, in order to support a conviction on such a charge it is not enough to show that the persons charged have contrived to obtain posses-sion of armoury and have, when called upon to surrender it, used the rifles and ammunition so obtained against the government troops. It must also be shown that the seizure of the armoury was part and parcel of a planned operation and that their intention in resisting the troops of the Government was to overwhelm and defeat these troops and then to go on and crush any further ...
Battle range
The range within which the fire of small arms is very destructive With the magazine rifle this is six hundred yards...
buried
covered from view as her face buried or hidden in her hands buried in the smoke of many rifles...
Cannelure
A groove in any cylinder specif a groove around the cylinder of an elongated bullet for small arms to contain a lubricant or around the rotating band of a gun projectile to lessen the resistance offered to the rifling Also a groove around the base of a cartridge where the extractor takes hold...
Carbine
A short light musket or rifle esp one used by mounted soldiers or cavalry...
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