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"Gentlemen," he said, "uncock your muskets, one of them may go off by accident; and if the shot chanced to wound one of my men, we should knock over a couple of hundreds of yours, for which we should, indeed, be very sorry, but you even more so; especially as such a thing is neither contemplated by you nor by myself."
Then, turning toward Planchet, he made him a sign to uncock his musketoon.
I never waited for to look further, but uncocked my gun and went sneaking back on my tiptoes as fast as ever I could.
The pistol was uncocked, the burden was resumed, and the party slowly toiled along the bank.
There are 24 patents active or pending on the Sub-1, but the most significant must be the ability to uncock the bow.
There was no direct confrontation, but as Peyser was leaving, he fired the gun by accident while trying to uncock it in the hallway.
Those of us who shoot crossbows have wanted the option of not having to uncock our bows by shooting them at the end of legal hunting time.
Editor's note: It only takes seconds, armorers, to uncock a weapon, slide the boll forward, and set it on SEMI or off SAFE.
As a result, Oxfordshire assistant deputy coroner Andrew Walker said, he put his hand over the top of the upwards-pointing barrel and used his foot to try to uncock it.
Mr Philpotts said: ``At that point the defendant came out of his house carrying what appeared to be a rifle which he proceeded to cock and uncock.
The firing squad in Kilkenny can uncock their rifles for another 12 months.
For months the generals have been pumped up for an invasion, hightech slaughter, another victory for the microchip, and at the last conceivable second have been told to change the software, uncock the gun--but go ahead anyway and try not to break things.