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Blu · #51 Post by **Blu** » Fri Aug 21, 2015 4:04 pm

Whatever works for you. Way I see it, call it what you want. As for club members getting antsy, tough. Within reason I suit myself and not other members.

I call them rifles, what the Americans call "handguns" I call pistols.

Dougan · #52 Post by **Dougan** » Fri Aug 21, 2015 6:24 pm

Really dislike the use of the word 'weapon' for target or sporting rifles and pistols...

...I let 'firearms' go, so that folk don't think I'm a total pedant; though it means the same thing...firearms are 'arms' (weapons) that fire...

DW58 · #53 Post by **DW58** » Sat Aug 22, 2015 10:37 am

Surely "Gun" refers to a smooth-bored firearm, it drives me nuts when someone refers to a rifle as a "gun" - something a certain verbose video blogger prattles on about every time he talks about his rifle.

Rifle
Shotgun or more traditionally just "Gun" especially in upper class circles
Pistol
Revolver

Browning_grrl · #54 Post by **Browning_grrl** » Sat Aug 22, 2015 11:13 am

DW58 wrote:Surely "Gun" refers to a smooth-bored firearm, it drives me nuts when someone refers to a rifle as a "gun" -

Well then, you won't wanna spend any time over 'ere. They're ALL guns. I'm a gun-owner. I carry my gun in a gun case when I take it to my gun club to shoot. And when I want a new one I go to a gun store. :)

#55 Post by **Chuck** » Sat Aug 22, 2015 11:30 am

Hey BG, let them have the deabte, cos whatever they call them they'll all be gone at some point

I would have thought GUIN covered any firearm, rifle, pistol, shotGUN etc

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/defin ... nglish/gun

A weapon incorporating a metal tube from which bullets, shells, or other missiles are propelled by explosive force, typically making a characteristic loud, sharp noise.

DW58 · #56 Post by **DW58** » Sat Aug 22, 2015 11:54 am

Browning_grrl wrote:
DW58 wrote:Surely "Gun" refers to a smooth-bored firearm, it drives me nuts when someone refers to a rifle as a "gun" -
Well then, you won't wanna spend any time over 'ere. They're ALL guns. I'm a gun-owner. I carry my gun in a gun case when I take it to my gun club to shoot. And when I want a new one I go to a gun store. :)

Well obviously - you are a colonial after all.

DW58 · #57 Post by **DW58** » Sat Aug 22, 2015 11:57 am

Boomstick
Bundook
Gat

NEXT!

Browning_grrl · #58 Post by **Browning_grrl** » Sat Aug 22, 2015 12:00 pm

Chuck wrote:Hey BG, let them have the deabte, cos whatever they call them they'll all be gone at some point

It's the sheer pedantry that drives me bonkers!! I can't help myself......

This is, "surely" (hate that word) a 'gun':

It sure as hell ain't a 'smoothbore'......

Just sayin'.....

George G · #59 Post by **George G** » Sat Aug 22, 2015 12:58 pm

That is correct. What is shown in the top photo is a gun. What we all talk about are small arms and even side arms.

#60 Post by **BamBam** » Sat Aug 22, 2015 1:03 pm

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