They were armed with both artillery, machine guns, and modern rifles.

Almost all modern military rifles use mechanisms of this type.

Even with a modern rifle it would be all odds on the monster.

Later revisions incorporated other features common to more modern rifles.

They're no use to anyone in the Bazaar, they all have modern rifles now.

Even modern high-velocity naval rifles would have problems with it.

I thought about what one man could "do" in this era with a modern rifle.

A modern rifle might punch holes in some other fellow's anatomy.

They were armed with 1,625 modern rifles, 30 artillery pieces and 14 machine guns.

Also found were 80 modern rifles with ammunition and a large herd of cattle.