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  • noun Plural form of saftie.

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Examples

  • This draft is certainly going to be interesting. our safties are a major problem

    Bleeding Green Nation 2010

  • No one is mentioning the other side of the defensive front either two guys returning from mircro-fracture+Osi's woes; the utter failure of the front line to generate pressure in particular up the middle has changed this defense and put an emphasis on what Reese rightfully knows, that they call them "safties" for a reason, they are a last line of defense and if you are having to use one all the time as well as switching schemes to a Cover-Two (in order to rely an an active and athletic lb and safety crew-which we all know we don't have).

    Big Blue View 2009

  • Some of my guns have manual safties and others have automatic safeties.

    One Trigger, Or Two? 2009

  • I don't like blind magazines, detachable clips for bolt guns, cheap synthetic stocks, Weatherby style stocks, or winged safties.

    Rifles of Interest: Montana High Country Series Ridgeline 2009

  • Being a lefty, the best safety is a thumb/tang. if i was right handed, forward on the trigger guard would be fine. as mentioned, with those 3postion safties on some old sxs guns (l.c. smiths, ithacas/lefevers) one needs to be (i think) more mindful.

    The Best (and Worst) Shotgun Safeties 2009

  • I don't like blind magazines, detachable clips for bolt guns, cheap synthetic stocks, Weatherby style stocks, or winged safties.

    Rifles of Interest: Montana High Country Series Ridgeline 2009

  • Some of my guns have manual safties and others have automatic safeties.

    One Trigger, Or Two? 2009

  • Being a lefty, the best safety is a thumb/tang. if i was right handed, forward on the trigger guard would be fine. as mentioned, with those 3postion safties on some old sxs guns (l.c. smiths, ithacas/lefevers) one needs to be (i think) more mindful.

    The Best (and Worst) Shotgun Safeties 2009

  • Still don't like cross-bolt safties, and will express my displeasure by not buying anything so equipped.

    A Mighty Mini Marlin 2008

  • I'm sure with those safties and how big and how physical they are, they are able to do those things and get pressure on the quarterback and they did

    USATODAY.com 2003

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