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1. rifles

   A rifle is a long-barreled firearm designed for accurate shooting, with a barrel that has a helical pattern of grooves (rifling) cut into the bore wall. In keeping with their focus on accuracy, rifles are typically designed to be held with both hands and braced firmly against the shooter's shoulder via a buttstock for stability during shooting. Rifles are used extensively in warfare, law enforcement, hunting, shooting sports, and crime. The term was originally rifled gun, with the verb rifle referring to the early modern machining process of creating groovings with cutting tools. By the 20th century, the weapon had become so common that the modern noun rifle is now often used for any long-shaped handheld ranged weapon designed for well-aimed discharge activated by a trigger (e.g., personnel halting and stimulation response rifle, which is actually a laser dazzler). Like all typical firearms, a rifle's projectile (bullet) is propelled by the contained deflagration of a combustible propellant compound (originally black powder, later cordite, and now nitrocellulose), although other propulsive means are used, such as compressed air in air rifles, which are popular for vermin control, small game hunting, competitive target shooting and casual sport shooting (plinking). The distinct feature that separates a rifle from the earlier smoothbore long guns (e.g., arquebuses, muskets) is the rifling within its barrel. The raised areas of a barrel's rifling are called lands; they make contact with and exert torque on the projectile as it moves down the bore, imparting a spin. When the projectile leaves the barrel, this spin persists and lends gyroscopic stability to the projectile due to conservation of angular momentum, increasing accuracy and hence effective range. Early long rifles were muzzle-loaders firing spherical balls; the introduction of breech-loading allowed the use of elongated and aerodynamically efficient bullets, which did not yaw or tumble significantly in flight due to the spin.

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1. filers

2. fliers

3. lifers

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of rifles in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of rifles in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of rifles in a Sentence

1. Kevin Thelwell:

   Unknown subjects armed with various semiautomatic weapons, to include rifles, arrived on the scene and began discharging the firearms towards the residents, ultimately striking and killing Elijah LaFrance.

2. Douglas Burton:

   Douglas Burton has talked to many of the victims of massacres in Nigeria, and Douglas Burton said there is a pattern. When you talk to the people who are the victims, they will tell you every time the massacres happen, a group of 10, 20 or 50 men come into our villages with machetes and assault rifles, and they’re screaming ‘ Allahu Akbar.

3. Quintez Brown:

   Get rid of assault rifles.

4. Theodore Roosevelt.The President:

   We have a Supreme Court justice, Judge Gorsuch, who will save -- how about a thing called your Second Amendment right -- OK -- remember that ? If crooked Hillary got elected, you would not have a Second Amendment, believe me. You'd be handing in your rifles.

5. Kevin Foster:

   Just listen to us, there is absolutely no reason you should have assault rifles available to citizens in the public. It serves absolutely no purpose and it brings death and destruction on children.

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   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rifles