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# De-cocking Lever – This is the only way to safely de-cock the firearm, and the automatic firing-pin lock stays engaged during this process.
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This travel disengages the automatic firing-pin lock, or otherwise called the safety intercept notch.
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In place of the Mauser's slow, jarring firing-pin fall, the Model 70's was very fast and smooth.
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The trigger clicked, the firing-pin nicked the cartridge — and stopped.
The Day Kennedy Died 2009
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In place of the Mauser's slow, jarring firing-pin fall, the Model 70's was very fast and smooth.
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The firing-pin fell on the empty chamber with a futile click, and the two men stared at each other across the gravel beach, both with their weapons levelled.
The Seventh Scroll Smith, Wilbur 1995
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Mad about that delectable little bouncer Angie Coutts, despot of a country abounding with the juiciest of dusky flashtails just itching for him to exercise the droit de seigneur, and there he was with a broken firing-pin.
Flashman's Lady Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1977
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"Here, is the ejector," throwing the chamber out, "it holds six shots, you see: but you never put a cartridge under the firing-pin, because, if anything strikes the trigger, it's likely to be discharged."
In Her Own Right John Reed Scott
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He took it from her and pointed out where it had been dented by the firing-pin.
Hidden Gold Wilder Anthony
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The gasp he uttered from his closing throat seemed to act like the fall of a firing-pin against
chained_bear commented on the word firing-pin
"Once lowered by the trigger, the sear released the cocked spring inside the bolt, which, extended to its full length, released the firing-pin. The impact ignited the shell's primer charge. Then the cordite exploded."
--David Macfarlane, The Danger Tree, 268
May 13, 2008