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Single-shot firearms are firearms that hold only a single round of ammunition, and must be reloaded after each shot. The history of firearms began with single-shot designs, and many centuries passed before multi-shot designs became commonplace. Single-shot designs are less complex than revolvers or magazine-fed firearms, and many single-shot designs are still produced by many manufacturers, in both cartridge- and non-cartridge varieties, from zip guns to the highest-quality shooting-match weapons.
Usage examples of "single-shot".
Since his Browning had a full clip, Dean took the Veri pistol and studied the single-shot blaster until figuring out how the 30 mm breechloader worked.
What she reminded me of was the old yellow Packard phaeton with the Canada goose on the radiator and the wire wheels which I had bought for sixteen dollars, a single-shot .
He looked behind him, seeing that the only case of blasters anywhere near him contained the single-shot Parker dueling pistol that J.
Mostly single-shot rifle and pistol fire, but occasionally someone let rip with a tommy gun on full auto.
One squad with repeating rifles will handily out-gun two or three squads armed with single-shot rifles.
In each hand, Cautious held a single-shot pistol of large caliber, equipped with silencers.
It concealed an object which resembled a single-shot pistol, with a barrel large enough to accommodate shotgun cartridges.
I designed a simple, single-shot pistol to use the new cartridges, and a few hundred of them were made in time, for use by officers.
The tools of their trade were the single-shot Big Fifty with a telescope sight.
She had some music, a single-shot Decca record player from the fifties with a jackknife attached to the tone arm with rubber bands for weight.
He opened the box and from it brought forth a single-shot Derringer twenty-two pistol.
He unlimbered the weapon now—latching it in single-shot position, because he had no idea how long his supply of cartridges must last—and fired.