Sentence examples for automatic firing from inspiring English sources

At trial, Staples testified that the rifle had never fired automatically while he possessed it and that he had been ignorant of any automatic firing capability.

That fully automatic firing is achieved by weapons such as the machine gun and submachine gun.

Hundreds were shot dead; others suffered horrible injuries from shrapnel-spraying automatic firing devices that lined the border.

At the turn of a selector switch, the action could be changed from semiautomatic to fully automatic, firing at a rate of 600 rounds per minute.

The response by the missile batteries would be nearly automatic, firing interceptor missiles to destroy the target by ramming into it, a tactic the military calls "hit to kill".

Lincoln Caplan, who generally covers the Supreme Court for the editorial board, explains their findings below: The Romanians strip the gun of its military features – large capacity magazine, automatic firing, that sort of thing – and ship it into the United States as a sport weapon.

The automatic fire is the dialogue.

And then the shooting started: sudden bursts of automatic fire.

Actual military weapons are capable of fully automatic fire.

One lever swivels through three settings from safety to single shot to automatic fire.

Fierce bursts of automatic fire came from the village, which rebels had infiltrated last week.