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To: Red in Blue PA

No way — where’s the fire that all firearms produce to expel the bullet?


5 posted on 09/28/2015 4:02:32 PM PDT by expat2
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To: expat2

If it doesn’t burn propellant,it’s not a firearm.


11 posted on 09/28/2015 4:07:09 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: expat2

“No way — where’s the fire that all firearms produce to expel the bullet?”

One of the definitions for the intransitive verb “to fire” is:

to emit or let fly an object (Merriam-Webster)

Such dictionary definitions to do require any combustion for the verb to mean the propulsion of an object by whatever means. The method of propulsion with a BB gun may be either a spring or compressed air, which does in fact “let fly an object” as described in the definition.


78 posted on 09/28/2015 5:40:23 PM PDT by WhiskeyX
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