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Hence we have black power muskets,shotguns and rifles.
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Generically speaking, all "guns", ie; pistols, shotguns, rifles, bb guns, derringers, etc... are all considered guns.
But specifically, rifles are rifles, shotguns are shotguns or guns, pistols are pistols, etc...
It is just the way it has always been.
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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.
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I think the Brits have an idea about proper.....
Firearms imports, consignments ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/Ez9oz9Rl.jpg)
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"The field is the touchstone of the man"..
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Only in Hollywierd does it happen
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Only in Hollywierd does it happen.I guess if its floats its a boat
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Well.... I hate to belabor the obvious, but a rifle is a gun. 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? 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."
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They might know how to make a gun - but that hardly means they know the proper name for it. I'll bet if you took Mr. Purdey aside he'd tell you, "Bloody 'ell, I'm a gunmaker, not an English teacher."
Dirty Harry refers to his pistol as a handGUN - are you telling me you want to argue with Dirty Harry? Well do ya, punk?
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Dirty Harry blinks every time he fires his handgun so I don't believe he is a real problem.Heck he even blinked back in his quick draws days long before they dreamed up SASS.Course back then he was Rowdey.
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