Sentence examples for the trigger was held from inspiring English sources

If the trigger was held in firing position, the weapon would continue to fire until it expended all of its ammunition.

An automatic rifle fires repeatedly as long as the trigger is held down, until the magazine is exhausted.

Actually, automatic weapons (those that continue firing when the trigger is held down) are costly and difficult to obtain legally and illegally in the United States.

An automatic weapon, sometimes known as a machine gun, can fire continuously when the trigger is held.

That would include deploying radars to increase the range of early warning coverage across the Persian Gulf, as well as introducing command, control and communications systems that could exchange that information with missile interceptors whose triggers are held by individual countries.

Kent Scheidegger, the legal director of the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation, a victims' rights group, said "all perpetrators of the underlying felony, not just the one who pulls the trigger" should be held accountable for murder.

This is meant to preserve the integrity of the moving parts, otherwise if the turret was held and the trigger was pulled, the internals would likely break.

The post was held five times by his father, whose assassination in 2005 triggered a prolonged crisis.

I wonder what the trigger was?

The only two demographic groups that have kept their fingers on the trigger are the elderly, holding steady at 43%, and Republicans, up slightly at 51%.

Every guardsman's finger tightened on the trigger of the rifle he was holding, or so it seemed.