Malala Yousafzai

I was a girl in a land where rifles are fired in celebration of a son, while daughters are hidden away behind a curtain, their role in life simply to prepare food and give birth to children.

Pakistani Activist

Sitting Bull

I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.

Statesman

Theodore Roosevelt

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

American President

Dale Earnhardt

Two of my favorite things are my steering wheel and my Remington rifle.

American Driver

Paul Ryan

People have a constitutional right to have semiautomatic rifles.

American Politician

Mikhail Kalashnikov

I do not consider the AK to be the best-ever assault rifle.

Russian Inventor

Jason Kander

In the Army, I learned how to use and respect my rifle.

Joseph Stalin

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.

Georgian Leader

Wayne LaPierre

Once they ban rifles, they're gone forever.

American Activist

Corey Stewart

The fact is that the AR-15 is a good rifle.

American Public Servant

Rifles have a spiraled barrel improving shooting accuracy, mainly used for longer-range targets.

Weapon Precision

Rifles are common in military vocabulary and discussion about warfare or hunting.

Military Context

In some cultures, rifles symbolize rebellion or revolution; understand the context when it's used metaphorically.

Cultural Symbolism

To 'rifle through' suggests a hurried or frantic searching motion, often without care.

Hasty Search

Using 'rifle' as a verb is mostly informal and used in everyday conversation.

Informal Usage

'Rifling through' can also be used as a figure of speech, meaning a thorough search, not just physical.

Figurative Expression

When 'rifle' means to take from a place, it often implies theft or some form of wrongdoing.

Implies Wrongdoing

'Rifling' something implies a forceful, possibly violent action, more intense than just theft.

Violent Connotation

The carpentry term 'rifle' is specialized and not commonly used outside this trade's jargon.

Specialized Craft

The carpentry 'rifle' has historical relevance, more often seen in contexts discussing traditional techniques.

Historical Use

 It's a powerful thing, getting in a room with complete strangers and reminding ourselves of our humanity, and that self-expression is just as valuable a tool as a rifle on your shoulder. And for an organization like the military, that prides itself on having acronyms for acronyms, you can get lost in the sauce

My journey from Marine...

 but there's an important other part of this story of course right and that's the females this is a female of a paradise rifle bird this was one of the species that lives in Australia we found this when the Tim took this photograph just in the mountains outside of Brisbane Australia as you can see the

Tim Laman & Ed Scholes:...

 and that they had repeating rifles at the time of the Spanish-American War, and then they had machine guns by the time of World War I. And, in other words, it was the equipment that was in the hands of the average soldier that was responsible, not greater keenness of eye

Why our IQ levels are...

 my father helped me hold the rifle to my shoulder and explained how to aim at the target about 30 yards off. That day, the last bullet I shot hit the small orange light that sat on top of the target and to everyone's surprise, especially mine,

I am the son of a...

 the mountain with Diane and we didn't know who was who but you don't argue with people carrying loaded rifles I was hauled off the back and taken away to be strip searched and so on and you said to me don't worry I've changed the

Rwandan Army Shoot Out PIPE...

 ex-boyfriend and then we're gonna go straight into a song that I wrote and about it's an instrumental piece called joy and I wrote it I woke up with this melody in my head and I you know went rifling

The "Joy" of "Upside...

 only designed to withstand small arms fire and I can feel the the nozzle the rifle being placed on my back he hit me with the with the rifle and the side of the hand like I mean business and I said

Hollywood Shootout PIPE...

 on the west side of the battlefield, standing under the trees. 18,000 men who first begin to walk and then trot and then run across open farm fields with their rifles leveled at the federal line.

A digital reimagining of...

 Here I was, being stubborn towards a trained soldier with a gun. I looked at his eyes. He was just a boy. At that moment, he raised his rifle to hit me, but I saw that he was hesitating.

What I learned as a...

 The barrel of the gun! This is the gun. This is the gun. This is an AK-47 rifle. This is your life. This is your life. This is ... this is ... this is your life.