Word: trigger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Limited bags are due because the tendency is to stop the barrel when the trigger is pressed...
...Batavia, N. Y., Elmer Schulz, four, found his father's shotgun in the kitchen, aimed it at his mother, said, "I'm going to shoot you, Mama," pulled the trigger and killed her. Said he later: "I bang Mama...
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...Shore, L. I., William Leach, hunter, rested his gun on the floor of an automobile, the barrel under his armpit. His dog placed its paw on the trigger, fired a charge into Leach's shoulder, fracturing his right collar bone and shoulder blade...
...when you go to blow its head off with your six-shooter? Texan White had written, old-style, that the snake will follow the movement of the gun-muzzle so closely with its head that you cannot fail to hit the snake's head when you pull the trigger. Texan Howe experimented, fired many a shot at many a Crotalus adamanteus atrox, missed their heads again and again, then angrily wrote: "It is such bunk as this that is making the development of common sense in this country slow...