Originally Posted By: GregSY
Well.... I hate to belabor the obvious, but a rifle is a gun.



Originally Posted By: 400 Nitro Express
Hmm. Gee, then I wonder why the British firms that made both referred to themselves as "Gun & Rifle Makers" on their signed work and trade labels. Were Holland & Holland, Purdey, Rigby, Boss, Evans, Atkin Grant & Lang, Gibbs, Churchill, etc., just plain stupid?


Originally Posted By: GregSY
I can't allow the quirks of some gunmakers in London to dictate what is the proper definition of a gun, or any other word for that matter.


I guess the finest gunmakers in the world know nothing of their trade. What a hoot.


"Serious rifles have two barrels, everything else just burns gunpowder."