Rifle vs. Gun

[Brian Dick]

"This is my rifle, this is my gun, this one's for killing and this one's for fun".

Screw the politically correct nonsense! :lol

I'm entwined in the actual terminology used on government paperwork frequently. It's Rifle, Pistol, Revolver, Shotgun and their respective approved abbreviations. Then there are machine guns, short barreled rifles and "any other weapon" or AOW's. The BATFE's own definition of an "assault rifle" is a SELECT FIRE weapon that fires an intermediate size cartridge. That's the correct definition since the introduction of the MP43/STG44 by the Germans during WWII. Unfortunately the media and unfriendly organizations and politicians have redefined the term and even folks who should know better fall into the jargon trap. It's sort of like calling the USA a democracy when it's really a constitutional republic. It makes me tired to hear politicians on both sides of the aisle use the term democracy in conjunction with the USA as originally designed. There is an agenda at play. Nuff' said.

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[Aussie48]

"This is my rifle, this is my gun, this one's for killing and this one's for fun".

Screw the politically correct nonsense! :lol

That's the phrase that was drummed in to us at recruit training in the Australian Army and unless you liked doing 5 kilometre runs and a serious amount of push ups it stuck like glue.[/QUOTE]