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Fail-to-fire: A firearm malfunction in which a firearm is incapable of discharging a round. Falling block action (also known as a sliding-block action ): A single-shot firearm action in which a solid metal breechblock slides vertically in grooves cut into the breech of the rifle and actuated by a lever .
"Hang Fire" is a song by the English rock and roll band the Rolling Stones from their 1981 album Tattoo You. Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards , "Hang Fire" is a fast-paced, up-tempo rock and roll track, which belies the happy beat with sharp, satirical lyrics directed squarely at England's economic decline through the 1970s.
Hangfire is the sixth novel of the military science fiction StarFist Saga by American writers David Sherman and Dan Cragg.This installment of Starfist contains three significant and independent plots, one involving members of third platoon, Company L, and the second involves Brigadier Sturgeon, the FIST commander.
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Though the origins of the game are unknown, a variant is mentioned in a book of children's games assembled by Alice Gomme in 1894 called Birds, Beasts, and Fishes. [1] This version lacks the image of a hanged man, instead relying on keeping score as to the number of attempts it took each player to fill in the blanks.
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