Rifle

Rifle in Law Enforcement

Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of rifle.

Resources

See Also

• Law Enforcement Officer
• Police
• Law Enforcement Agency

Further Reading

• rifle in A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (Oxford University Press)
• rifle in the Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement
• A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis

A weapon, designed, made, and intended to be fired from the shoulder; and designed and made to use the energy of an explosive in a fixed metallic cartridge to fire only a single projectile through a rifled bore for each single pull of the trigger.