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  • The trigger's not so great, but even with that being said its an accurate rifle, and it doesn't matter if it gets wet, dirty, etc.

    A Bad Rifle Is (Almost) Always a Bad Rifle 2007

  • That's another reason insurers wouldn't meet a trigger's thresholds, given that providers shift costs onto private under-65 patients to make up government shortfalls.

    Whoa, Trigger 2009

  • Wes, WD 40-once had a gunsmith show me a box full of ruined trigger's from it, was told by instructor's in office machine school stuff is tabo for use, bought a high standard 22 that took 2 years to clean trigger ass'y. to get crap out, taxidermist recomended polishing mt. goat horn's with it (work's great!).

    The Great Barrel Break-In Fad 2007

  • But it's just an indication of just how people here in Haifa are on a trigger's edge.

    CNN Transcript Jul 25, 2006 2006

  • Which means the first half of the trigger's travel clicks the hammer back and revolves the cylinder under it, and then, if you keep on pulling, the hammer drops and the gun fires.

    Echo Burning Child, Lee 2001

  • He felt the tension of it, felt the trigger's breaking point, knew that another gram of pressure would send the bolt of electric death on its way.

    Beowulf's Children Niven, Larry 1995

  • And it can't think for itself: it thinks as much as a gun thinks after the trigger's been pulled.

    The Mandarin Cypher Hall, Adam 1975

  • "The trigger's gone," Jerry objected, "an 'a pistol ain't no good without a trigger."

    The Circus Comes to Town Lebbeus Mitchell 1921

  • In that box that you have dragged about London and carried on your defenceless shoulders, sleep, at the trigger's mercy, the destroying energies of dynamite. '

    The Dynamiter Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

  • After addressing these more immediate agenda items, congressional lawmakers are likely to turn to altering the trigger's equal blend of domestic and defense cuts.

    BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2011

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