Since the Vietnam War, the M16 rifle family has been the primary service rifle of the U. S. armed forces.

Since the cancellation of the XM8 program, and into 2008, the LSAT rifle program has been pursued for the next generation of U. S. small arms.

Since 2006, both the M16 and the M4A1 are being replaced by the Israeli designed and manufactured Tavor TAR-21 bullpup assault rifle.

Since the Ringatu had the advantage of rifle pits and numbers while Te Arawa were attacking up hill it was not an impressive performance by Te kooti's men.

Since grenade launchers require relatively low internal pressure and only a short barrel, a lightweight launcher can be mounted under the barrel of a traditional rifle.

Since the Brunswick used a round that was specifically designed to be mated with the grooves in the rifle, it had to be oriented properly in order to be loaded.

Since large national militaries generally change slowly, military rifle ammunition is frequently battle-tested and well-studied by ammunition and firearms experts.

Since 1963 these soldiers have been equipped with the Dragunov SVD rifle that shares all the characteristics typical of a designated marksman rifle ( Semi-automatic fire, telescopic sight, chambered for standard military rifle cartridge ).

Since the. 22 Long Rifle performs as well in a short handgun barrel as the. 22 Long and outperforms it significantly in a long rifle barrel, the development of the. 22 Long Rifle assured the. 22 Long's path to obsolescence.

Since the demise of the SPIW, there has been another attempt to revolutionize the assault rifle by way of a small projectile and a very high rate of fire, namely the West German Heckler & Koch G11 caseless rifle.

Since having an existing barrel rebored and rechambered was ( at that time ) less expensive than fitting a new barrel, a 303-25 rifle with a shotout barrel could be economically converted to. 277 caliber, known as the 303-270.

Since his rifle did not work, Cardoniga got the image of the virgin from his necklace and place it inside the hole of the barrel after which he succeeded in firing the rifle and in killing the outlaw chief.

Since its debut, the only Hybrid guns seen on the market are TOP M4A1, as well as M1 Garand, Kar98, and other rifle models.

Since such a combination of designs impeded training and logistics, work on one standard type of rifle was carried out starting in 1919.

Since such a combination of design and supply of weapons impede training, has since 1919 carried out work on the choice of one type of rifle.

Since Rhode Island at that time did not have such sanction, his opinion was not popular.

Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.

Those famous lines of the Greek Anthology with which a fading beauty dedicates her mirror at the shrine of a goddess reveal a wise attitude: `` Venus, take my votive glass, Since I am not what I was, What from this day I shall be, Venus, let me never see ''.

Since it was issued in the spring of 1611, the King James Version has been most generally considered the most poetic and beautiful of all translations of the Bible.

Since she could not act, one part suited her as well as any other, and so she was the first person to offer Mr. Lincoln a glass of water, holding it up to the box, high above her head, to Miss Harris, who had asked for it.

Since ordinary breakfast-table conversation was impossible, it was at least something that they were able to offer Eugene the sugar bowl with their sugar in it, and the plate of bread and butter, and that Eugene could return the pitcher of hot milk to them handle first.

Since his Christ was to be life size, how was Mary to hold him on her lap without the relationship seeming ungainly??

Since the writer had established this democratic procedure in the beginning he had to go along with their decision -- after, of course, pointing out whether he thought their decision was a wise or an unwise one.

Since this type of item was not in the statute when section 381 was enacted in 1954, one cannot say with certainty what effect the enactment of that section should have.

Since writing was practiced in the Aegean before the end of the century, we may hope that the details of tradition will now be occasionally useful.

Since the strength of the Mexicans had been underrated, too small a posse had been collected, and since the deputy had not been provided with search warrants, MacPherson and his men decided it was much wiser to withdraw.

Since experience indicates that effluents from oxidation ponds do not create major problems at these BOD concentrations, the goal for the effluent quality of the accelerated treatment system was the same as from conventional oxidation ponds.

Since the psychiatric interview, like any other interview, depends on communication, it is significant to note that the therapist in this interview was a man of marked skill and long experience.

Since Fogg's was a one-man, one-plane flying service, this meant that he would have to do both trips, flying alone 600 miles a day, under sub-freezing temperature conditions.

Since the 1946 disaster there have been 15 tsunami in the Pacific, but only one was of any consequence.

Since a fall or blow might have caused it, a cold pack was usually first aid.

Since then he had worked at this and that, though some said his main interest was gambling.

Since 1949, the only National League club that got off to a hot start and made a runaway of the race was the '55 Dodger team.

Since Russian was being spoken instead of Spanish, there is no violation of artistry or logic here.

Since the organization was created thirteen years ago, it is obvious that this is not the original company ; ;

Since they did not glance curiously at us once, I guessed that there was a penalty for distraction.

Since 30 June 2012 when the last leap second was added, TAI has been exactly 35 seconds ahead of UTC.

Since the stored energy in the barrier is less than the energy stored in a barrier-free region of the same length due to destructive interference, the group delay for the energy to escape the barrier region is shorter than it would be in free space, which according to Winful is the explanation for apparently superluminal tunneling.

Since the cracking is likely due to a brittle neck, the cases should be annealed before attempting to reform them, or the crack may propagate and ruin the newly formed shorter case as well.

Since the inception of the theories, various studies have expanded the range of possible cycles, finding longer or shorter cycles in the data.

Since some xenon might have escaped the rocks this formation period might be even shorter.

Since shorter telomeres are thought to be a cause of poorer health and aging, this raises the question of why longer telomeres are not selected for to ameliorate these effects.

Since most trips by bicycle or walking are generally shorter, they are assumed to have stayed within one zone and are not included in the analysis.

Since Wednesday,, Eurostar services have relocated to St Pancras, promising shorter journey times to Paris and Brussels and better connections to the rest of the UK.

Since shorter strands of DNA move through the gel matrix faster they are detected sooner and there is then a direct correlation between length of DNA strand and time at the detector.

Since for most natural light sources, the coherence time is much shorter than the time resolution of any detector, the detector itself does the time averaging.

Since it means that he is either the younger or shorter of two, he seems to be compared to one other James.

Since the power of the laser is constant when sampling over frequencies much shorter than the frequency of the laser's light ~ 10 < sup > 14 </ sup > Hz, the derivative of this term averages to zero and the force can be written as

Since North American plates have shorter texts than those in Europe, this is more difficult than it would seem.

For example, if city A and city B are next to each other, while city C is farther away, the total distance traveled will be shorter if cities A and B are visited one after the other before visiting city C. Since finding an optimal solution to the TSP is an NP-hard task, heuristic-based approximation methods ( such as local searches ) are useful for devising close-to-optimal solutions.

Since shorter players tend to be more agile than taller players, cornerbacks are typically among the shortest players on the team.

Since the period was shorter than 24 hours, he hypothesized that a different clock had to be responsible for the rhythm ; the shortened period was not entrained — coordinated — by environmental cues, thus the clock appeared to be endogenous.

Since the Islamic lunar calendar year is 11 to 12 days shorter than the solar year, Muharram migrates throughout the solar years.

Since the length of chain on the shorter side is lighter than the length of chain on the taller side, the chain will move up around the pulley and down towards the lower surface.

Since this drum is typically played while hanging from a shoulder strap, it is considerably shorter and narrower than a traditional conga.

Since 1977 the event had also paid host to the Jubilee Challenge, which is a shorter version of ten tors for competitors who are impaired in some way ( be that a severe learning difficulty or physically disabled ) thus showing that any one can take up the challenge.

Since the water came in contact with the grinds for a much shorter time the caffeine is extracted in reduced ratio to the flavorful coffee oils.

Since the luff of the sail is shorter than the leech, the after end of the yard is peaked up by the combination of the upward force of the halyard and the downward force of the tack downhaul.

( Since it flows north, they had to tow the logs south, against the current, to ship it a shorter distance to the lumber mills and factories lower in the Columbia Basin.

Since Webb made his NBA debut, only two players have been shorter than he was: Earl Boykins and Muggsy Bogues.

Since it is more massive than the Sun, its lifespan is shorter being less than 6000 million years.