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n. A type of firearm cartridge with the primer is in a central primer cap.
Usage examples of "centerfire".
The all volunteer sec force emerged from behind that rusting barrier, shouting instructions as they aimed their handful of centerfire blasters at the driver.
If a centerfire slug can't get close to one of those suits, how the hell is an ax going to do any damage?
There were no selective-fire automatics, no laser sights, no centerfire cartridges in the eighteenth century.
Their lives weren't worth the price of a centerfire bullet or the trouble of resharpening a bone-nicked knife blade.
Pauly also invented a centerfire primer, a percussion cap set into the center of the rear end of his cartridge.
Michael was checking his Texas Longhorn Border Special, work- ing the fluid action of the 6-round, centerfire .
Tucked into the knotted rope belt was Julio's Texas Longhorn Border Special, the small revolver that fired six rounds of centerfire .