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Survival Tip The Little Badger’s skeletonized wire buttstock is easy to customize with a survival theme.
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Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 21 Mar. 2023
But the gun purchased by Mr. Alissa, while carrying some of the hallmarks of a longer AR-15, had instead been marketed as a pistol — a gun that can be shot with one hand but which comes with a stabilizer that looks similar to the buttstock of a rifle.
—New York Times, 24 Mar. 2021
Inside the car was a buttstock from an AR rifle and ammunition that matched the rounds from the March shooting.
—Dallas News, 9 Nov. 2022
The Alligator also uses a recoil-isolating buttstock and a four- or five-baffle muzzle brake.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 22 Sep. 2022
Earlier this month, a former 911 dispatcher named Yunis Isaac Mejia was sentenced to 21 months in jail for having attached a buttstock to a pistol.
—Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 19 July 2022
Recoil will be softened thanks to a padded cheekpiece and buttstock.
—Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 21 Jan. 2021
The brace essentially replaces a buttstock, which sits at the end of most long guns, like rifles, to help absorb recoil.
—Christal Hayes, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2021
The stock is two pieces with separate forend and buttstock.
—Bryce M. Towsley, Outdoor Life, 9 Dec. 2020
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Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 21 Mar. 2023
But the gun purchased by Mr. Alissa, while carrying some of the hallmarks of a longer AR-15, had instead been marketed as a pistol — a gun that can be shot with one hand but which comes with a stabilizer that looks similar to the buttstock of a rifle.
—New York Times, 24 Mar. 2021
Inside the car was a buttstock from an AR rifle and ammunition that matched the rounds from the March shooting.
—Dallas News, 9 Nov. 2022
The Alligator also uses a recoil-isolating buttstock and a four- or five-baffle muzzle brake.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 22 Sep. 2022
Earlier this month, a former 911 dispatcher named Yunis Isaac Mejia was sentenced to 21 months in jail for having attached a buttstock to a pistol.
—Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 19 July 2022
Recoil will be softened thanks to a padded cheekpiece and buttstock.
—Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 21 Jan. 2021
The brace essentially replaces a buttstock, which sits at the end of most long guns, like rifles, to help absorb recoil.
—Christal Hayes, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2021
The stock is two pieces with separate forend and buttstock.
—Bryce M. Towsley, Outdoor Life, 9 Dec. 2020
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“Buttstock.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/buttstock. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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