Assertion: rifle | /r/HasProperty | fired
Facets:
value: recently
type: TEMPORAL
value: accurately
type: MANNER
value: from the prone position
type: OTHER
value: -automatically
type: MANNER
value: rapidly
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Ballistic experts testified to the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) that this likely occurred when the rifle was rapidly fired and the cartridge was ejected.
text: The most severe problem was known as "failure to extract"—the spent cartridge case remained lodged in the chamber after the rifle was fired.
text: It is that which would be measured if the rifle were fired suspended from strings, free to recoil.
text: When the connector assembly was disengaged, the rifle could only be fired semi-automatically and functioned in a manner similar to the M1 rifle.
text: The blade is offset to the side of the handle to allow the rifle to be fired while the bayonet is fitted; it is shaped to produce good penetration when thrust and to part a person's ribs without embedding into bone, and a ribbed section for rope cutting.
text: The recoil produced by the cartridges employed dictates that these rifles are designed to be fired from the prone position.
text: Dust cover Has a spring-loaded dust-cover, which opens when the rifle is fired or chambered.
text: It is that which would be measured if the rifle were fired suspended from strings, free to recoil.
text: Milled/Forged Receivers are much more rigid, flexing less as the rifle is fired thus not hindering accuracy as much as stamped receivers.
text: The rifle did not have a "hair-trigger," and could indeed be fired accurately.
text: Oswald's rifle was not tested to see whether it had been recently fired.
text: There was not, and still is not, any test that can determine whether a rifle has been "recently fired.