A hammerless design is also less likely to jam in brush or clothing.

In 1886, the company produced its first hammerless shotgun.

He is best known as the inventor of the hammerless shotgun, first introduced in 1878.

It has a hammerless action which means that there is no external hammer spur.

Firearms in today's modern times generally use hammerless technology.

This was the birth of the first hammerless drilling.

The origins of the hammerless shotgun are European but otherwise obscure.

A hammerless rifle was therefore a substantially superior gun.

The hammerless action depended on a spring-loaded striker to fire the cartridge.

Lefever patented the first truly automatic hammerless shotgun in 1883.

Hammerless or hammer shotguns with varying amounts of engraving were available.

Hammerless firearms do not use a firing pin.

The gun also used a firing pin, rather than a hammer, and was the first mass-produced hammerless rifle.

A Hammerless weapon is a modification of the original firing mechanism of firearms.

They may be encountered in muzzleloading, pinfire, exposed hammer, and hammerless designs.

The first significant encroachment on hammer guns was a hammerless patent which could be used with a conventional side-lock.

Prior to this hammerless technology rifles were fixed with an exposed firing hammer and at times would be dangerous to the operator.

Hammerless firearms do not feature an exposed firing hammer or firing "spur".

The hammerless repeating rifle is a firearm that operates without any external hammer or firing pin.

Two years later, he ordered that newly hired officers be required to purchase one hammerless weapon for regular use and another for off duty.

The hammerless design was a useful improvement as it reduces the lock time (the time from trigger pull to firing).

I unlocked the door of the car and reached under the dashboard for the .38 Smith & Wesson hammerless 6-shot.

Holland & Holland (of London) most notably perfected the hammerless design in the 1880s.