Sentence examples for firearm firing from inspiring English sources

The application, addressed to the high court registrar in Pretoria and Pistorius's defence team, notes that the sprinter knew there was a person behind the toilet door and chose to use a firearm, firing not one but four shots, and there was no room for escape for the person behind the door.

According to an account in La Jornada, one of the men responded aggressively to the students' shouting and produced a firearm, firing once at the floor to disperse the crowds who were surrounding them.

Linking of the firearm, fired cartridge case and bullet is a classical example of tool mark identification.

Fired cartridge cases and bullets bear characteristic marks, which enable firearm examiners to identify the firearm that fired them (Kinder et al., 2004).

The officer drew her firearm and fired at the suspect, striking him".

During a "carefully planned and professionally executed armed robbery", a firearm was fired at a supervisor.

Slager said he "then felt threatened and reached for his department-issued firearm and fired his weapon".

When a firearm is fired, it transfers these characteristics – in the form of microscopic scratches and dents – to the fired bullets and cartridge casings.

Just seconds after Dial crashed into a tree, "Deputy West reloaded his firearm and fired an additional shot".

Slager "felt threatened and reached for his department-issued firearm and fired his weapon," his attorney said in a statement on Sunday.

He was also cleared on two unrelated firearms charges - of firing a firearm through a sunroof and of illegal possession of ammunition - but found guilty on a third of illegally discharging a firearm in a crowded restaurant in January 2013, weeks before Steenkamp's death.