Firing
Shoots
Both words in one sentence
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Instead of firing the familiar blobs or bolts, it shoots rapid-fire beams that quickly dissipate into what look like contrails.
Source: Plasma Cannon - Dead Man's Trigger Finger: Thanks to Bond, one mook shoots another and the shot mook keeps firing his submachine gun as he falls over dead, killing the other as well.
Source: Literature / Role of Honour -
It's really just the Church's Pulse Laser equivalent that shoots blue bzzt-bzzt rays instead of red pew-pew beams.The reboot will bring it back, but firing purple bolts instead.
Source: Lightning Gun
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