A recent question here brought up my curiousity, the man asked why people call ammunition bullets, in the answers to his question another user brought up people using the term clip instead of the proper magazine term, that one drives me nuts, it's like fingernails on a chalkboard. Another one that get to me is when people confuse 45LC with 45acp, dunno why that one gets to me but it does.
What's you pet peeves about improper terminology concerning firearms and ammo?
I can't be the only one that has "issues" with this?
2007-11-17 16:52:30 · 25 answers · asked by boker_magnum 6 in Sports ➔ Outdoor Recreation ➔ Hunting
LOL ! Don't get me started on the media!
2007-11-17 17:16:43 · update #1
This one is my peeve it is a reference to any lawful person that has and uses any firearm! They call us GUN NUTS!
2007-11-17 18:10:21 · answer #1 · answered by Injun 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
"Gun toting" and "high powered rifle" as used in the media. I have to wonder if they all had the same teacher in journalism class.
People are almost never "armed" or carrying a gun. Guns must always be "toted". I imagine they think it conjures up images of toothless, tobacco spitting hillbillies in bib overalls in order to inflame the paranoia of their suburban target audience.
And "high powered rifle" again appears to be an attempt to frighten the ignorant by making something sound more menacing than it really is. The term is thrown around so carelessly that it has no real meaning any more. All rifles and most handguns are now "high powered" to anyone on the evening news.
2007-11-18 01:02:59 · answer #2 · answered by gunplumber_462 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The one that has always bugged me the most is bullet instead of round. It bugs my sons to no end when I correct them on this. It REALLY annoys me when someone who is supposed to know better does it. I was at a gun shop trying to find a spare magazine (clip vs mag doesn't bug me at all for some reason) and the clerk said that the stock mag only holds 13 bullets and that he had a hi cap mag that would hold 20. I kind of became a real smart *** with him and told him, it would probably hold 30 or 40 bullets if you put them in sideways. He didn't get it and started arguing with me telling me that the BULLETS couldn't go in but one way. I told him that I was messing with him and explained a bullet was the pointy thing at the end that came out of the ROUND. He looked at me like I was the biggest ****** in the world. I have to admit I was a dick about it but I bet he doesn't make that mistake again!
2007-11-17 19:00:51 · answer #3 · answered by smf_hi 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
CLIPS for MAGAZINE. Clips are used to load magazines.
Calling Ammunition Bullets
calling AR style rifles assault rifles
when people start bragging about how there bb gun can kill a deer at 200 yards with one shot. and it is sighted dead on at 400 yards with its plastic 4x scope.
Calling a revolver a pistol. A revolver is a revolver, a pistol is semiautomatic handgun.
My nails on a chalkboard one:
Calling any rifle with a heavy barrel and high power optics a SNIPER Rifle. A sniper rifle is a rifle that a Trained SNIPER (ARMY, USMC, Police) uses in his duties. You Mr. Joe Blow are not a sniper you do not have a little black book with details of your kills you have never been threw the US Army or USMC sniper schools so there for you are not a sniper. A Sniper is the hardest job in the military. You own a Target or Varmint rifle not a damn SNIPER rifle.
Not terminology but close.
People who hate me for owning a firearm.
People who think I live in fear because I have CWP.
People who think I am nothing but a blood thirsty murderer because I have firearms.
2007-11-18 02:17:21 · answer #4 · answered by cpttango30 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I've given up on the whole issue. The bullet thing has always been worst to me, but there are so many, and in an ever-expanding array, that I've thrown up my hands in surrender. 38 caliber handguns that shoot bullets of .38" diameter, assault rifles incapable of fully automatic fire, and others only produce a low moan now. Perhaps the worst, because the manufacturers themselves are changing their terminology, are the great pistols like the Colt SAA no longer being pistols, the term now being used only for autoloaders firing rimless cartridges.
2007-11-17 17:16:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
No offense Boker but...
I get peeved when some gun guys get mad at NB's and treat them like ignorant fools instead of educating them. And while yes there are some specific terms that mean specific things I would not want something simple like terminology to discolor the taste of shooting in some neophyte's experience. The Marine Corps makes big use of terminology, front sight post, rear sight aperature, but there are a lot of shooters that I know don't know these things. And the guy who "educates" them in an rude and condescending manner reminds me of my Grandmother and mother teaching us the proper use of "I" and "me" or "there" and "their". There is nothing wrong with the knowledge, but often the delivery.
And yes the media turning all of us into wackos and killers with assault rifles and high powered man killing sniper scopes...
2007-11-18 09:54:39 · answer #6 · answered by Maker 4 · 5⤊ 1⤋
To me, the 'clip/magazine' thing is kinda the equivalent of a
Chevy/Ford argument - never-ending. MY gripe is with the media as well - the infamous ''shots rang out '' phrase gets me like a toothache. Of course every weapon is an 'assault' weapon, right ?
Perhaps the biggest complaint is when a cop or sheriff stands there with a bolt-action .22 rifle in his hands whining about 'high power' rifles on the street.
2007-11-18 03:36:14 · answer #7 · answered by sirbobby98121 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I like all the answers so far. The Media will always be TOTAL Screw Ups as far as I'm concerned..A local TV Anchor on the 11 o'clock news last night was talking about an Officer involved shooting in Baltimore (A common occurrence) Anyway. This normally prim and proper, Anchor who quite often "massacres" the English language stated.."And the suspect was armed with a 357 MAGNET that he pointed at officers before he was shot....I laughed so hard I cried.......Pathetic..He was clueless......
2007-11-17 17:14:47 · answer #8 · answered by JD 7 · 8⤊ 1⤋
Yeah that was me with the clip.... im in the army so we have to use the correct terminology.... Also calling an AK-47 a machine gun is ridiculous too.... they really dont drive me crazy.... but they do sound weird when people say the wrong thing.... heres my machine gun and it is a semi SKS, or AK... yeah ok.... we have to call every gun a weapon.... you say the word gun and it is a million push up's again... LOL... :)
2007-11-17 17:19:53 · answer #9 · answered by Stampy Skunk 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Any type of ammo referred to as "bullets"-even shotgun shells. Fired brass/empty cartridges as "bullet casings". Almost any type of ammo as "cop-killer bullets". Any long arm now is an "assault weapon", semiautos as "automatic wepons". On the latter, I think not all the errors are unintentional on the part of the media, gun control advocates or their stooges in the legislative branch of our government.
2007-11-17 17:31:57 · answer #10 · answered by john r 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The news medias constant broad use of the word "assault" rifle when refering to any gun. They over hype every firearm to the point where it seems like an armed armada of mercenaries attacked a little old lady in broad daylight, when in fact its probably just one guy with a 32 auto that jams.
2007-11-17 16:58:11 · answer #11 · answered by ? 4 · 9⤊ 0⤋