Which firearm-related term bugs you the most?

[Ironbar]

"Tack Driver"

 

[RVTECH]

The term 'Fudd' gun - especially when referenced by what seems to be relatively 'new' gun owners who seem to think the only 2A reality is AKs, ARs, Hi Cap Semi Autos and the like etc.

 

[Sgt Nambu]

"Tack Driver"

Only if it can't drive tacks!

 

[45alive]

''Zip Gun,'' is that when your fly is open ?

 

[DMax]

Common Sense
Common Core = Code speak for communism and loss of liberty
Common Man

 

[orygun]

"Tack Driver"

Only if it can't drive tacks!

Yeah, this phrase can get old very quickly, even more so when repeated over and over by someone that doesn't know, and can't shoot, "poop". (instead of bubblegum) I am guilty of using it to describe one or two guns though...

 

[Stomper]

The term 'Fudd' gun - especially when referenced by what seems to be relatively 'new' gun owners who seem to think the only 2A reality is AKs, ARs, Hi Cap Semi Autos and the like etc.

"Fudd" is a state of mind and attitude... not to be used as a reference to equipment.

 

[orygun]

"Crack shot" - this one drives me batty. I have never once met someone who describes themselves as a crack shot that could hit a 5 lb coffee can at 5 paces in 5 shots, from a 12 guage with birdshot and a blunderbuss like muzzle device.

This is the funniest chit I've read in a long time! Nice.

 

[Stomper]

Hey, I remember the 80's.... "crack kills".

(Not to be confused with plumber's crack)

 

[Bon Sauvage]

''Zip Gun,'' is that when your fly is open ?

No. That is when your cucumber has left the salad.

 

[Stomper]

So... you're talkin' a tossed salad then, yeah?

 

[Bon Sauvage]

"MIL-SPEC"

 

[MountainBear]

"MIL-SPEC"

Agreed. Do you really want something that exists only because it is too expensive to replace and made by the lowest bidder? Or at least something built to those specs? The military may get the extra pew pew pew position on their selectors that we can't have, for what we can, I'd prefer it not be be made by a lowest bidder.

 

[Sgt Nambu]

packing heat

Gotta agree on this one! I use the word packing sometimes but add heat and it sounds like a juvenile delinquent bragging!

 

[MountainBear]

I don't know if its already been mentioned, but I don't feel like wading through 13 pages to find out.

This term really gained steam with the now (thank the Lord) defunct Red Jacket show. Every time they would bolt some doohicky onto an existing rifle it was a "game-changer". Molest a thompson sub-machine gun by adding a rail, its a "game-changer", as if every PD in the country is going to rush out and dump their H&K and M4's for a Tommy Gun. Bold a bunch of saiga shotguns to a steel disk for a gatling gun and its a "game-changer". Bolt an airsoft stock to a 10-22? Game changer (although, I must admit, I did kind of like the looks of that). Give me a fricking break. There were only two or three guys on that show that had any gunsmithing talent what-so-ever, and they seemed constantly annoyed by the other idiots (see Vince). The rest were clowns on display. But damn-it, they made "game-changers"!

Any gun that any manufacturer brings out calling it a game-changer had better blow my socks off. Re-hashing something that's been done 100 times over in a different shape or color is not game changing.

 

[Brutus57]

My evil black rifle is "hand built."
Brutus Out

 

[Certaindeaf]

"Bullet head".. meaning bullet or projectile.
dood, it's not a bullet head.

 

[GuyBMeredith]

"Clip" used in place of "magazine", by far is the biggest annoyance to me. I know that people still get what you are talking about, but they'd probably get what you meant if you said "gat", but most of us don't go around calling guns "gats".

A little side story on clip vs magazine. A friend of mine has become interested in firearms and is very earnest about "getting it right" and safety. She made comment about knowing that the thing you fill with rounds and stuff into a firearm is a magazine rather than clip.

Then I showed her the Garand (enbloc) clip.

 

[skeezix]

"gun violence" Inanimate objects are unable to do anything of their own accord.

 

[co2emitter]

"assault" rifle/anything . Obviously a loaded term, pardon the pun, actually it's an assaulting term. i guess if "assault" rilfes were banned it wouldn't affect anyone anyway since noone owns an assault rifle, everyone either has a hunting rifle, or self defense rifle, or sporting rifle, or peaceful loving warm & fuzzy rifle , etc.. A gun is a gun, they ALL do the same thing, yet they try to make it sound like there's some special kind of gun that's made for inflicting harm.