Which firearm-related term bugs you the most?

[hightower]

Are you referring to the enthusiast who has dozens of short firearm and knife videos on YouTube? "nutnfancy" has posted many truly useful gun and shooting evaluation vids, so if you can bear the nickname, check them out......................elsullo

i have checked it out and yes his reviews are pretty good at face value. I haven't watched all his content but from what i gather he is an ex officer, preaching all chl holders are guardians of the "sheeple" masses. i don't know his stance on ccw badges but most of his rhetoric seems to be in favor. But yeah his reviews are pretty cool!

 

[Skybill]

Someone mentioned the term "Gun Nut"

I used that term when I reminded my daughters boy friend that I was a "gun nut"!!!!!

 

[mpmarty]

Reading or hearing about silencers and safeties on revolvers.

 

[Ding]

"Click" as in empty or out of stock,back ordered are the ones that bug me the most..

 

[mike sr.]

The term ASSAULT WEAPONS: ....and the problem we have today -legislatively speaking- was caused by our OWN: the gun industry and gun lovers. With the first production of the Mac 10's or 11's came onto the market [maybe 30+ yrs ago or maybe it just seem like 30 yrs ago] ALL THE FREAKING GUN magazine writers went bonkers in their write up about these new MAC'S and the term assault weapons surfaced... and now the words ASSAULT WEAPON has become a burden to all of us.......Two eye opening words to sell a magazine...

Then again another word BOON DOGGLE: BLACK TALON....

Don't ya just love it when we keep shooting ourselves in the foot....

 

[speelyei]

the "Sheep, Wolves, and Sheepdogs" parable. I get the point... but it's such an over simplification, it makes me nuts.

 

[shakazulu12]

Same as everyone else, ''clip'', ''assault weapon'', ''strap'', ''gat''.

Pretty tolerant of anything else, but it depends on the person doing the talking.

 

[rusobr2]

ASSAULT WEAPON-just about my biggest problem- i was showing a guy my browning bar,when he finely looked up at me, and asked, so this would actualy be considered an assault weapon ? -some people out there just associate a semi-auto as an assault weapon,and i do feel that this comes from the media themselves-if the gun is all black,this makes matters worse-kinda like most red cars are the fastest-GO FIGURE !!
steven

 

[jeh44]

It really bothers me when looking through the classifieds and you see a WASR-10 for 750, or DPMS AR's for 1100... or my personal favorite.. the single shot break action shotguns for 200 bucks... or hi-points for 220...
Oh, I try to restrain myself but I end up PM-ing people every now and then with what they might reasonable expect for their firearm.

 

[slingshot1943]

Gun control

 

[Brutus57]

I actually saw today, at the Lynden Gun show well worn AR magazines (GI Style)....Labeled "Clips" used $10.00 each!

That and "assault weapon" the way most people use it. GAWD I wish I could own and assault weapon!

Brutus Our

 

[Cherpybird]

"Clip" is my biggest pet peev.

Giving a gun some hyphenated girls name.
My wife named her Sig "Queen Rose". I then confiscated said handgun.

A "bubba'd" Enfield iis not worth $300.
An unspoilt Enfield is not worth $500.
A Mosin is not worth more than $100.
A used Glock is not worth $500

Being offered unlisted trades. Really, if you can't follow the requirements in my add I'm not giving you a gun.

 

[bzltyr]

AR..........assault rifle. ........it chaps my hide

 

[Member 5605]

Assault "________"
"_______" Loophole
"Shot it once"
"Like New"
"Custom ______" (the blank is something you can buy off the shelf)

 

[Partsproduction]

I guess I'd have to say it is "billet" when describing gun parts. As a production machinist for many decades who is responsible for making untold hundreds of thousands of parts I personally have never, not once, made anything out of actual billet. We make parts from barstock mostly. A billet is generally a large product of the rolling mills that is the "Father" of many finished engineering products, plate, sheet and bar, both round and square also rectangular. Very seldom do most machine shops ever even have a section of a billet on site.
Exceptions might be companies that make large parts like Boeing's wing spars.

Generally it is used by people who are either too ignorant to know that, or are salesmen pandering to such people hoping to retire early.

 

[Velzey]

The AR platform
The 1911 platform
The AK platform


I try not to stand on any of my firearms!

 

[mkwerx]

i have checked it out and yes his reviews are pretty good at face value. I haven't watched all his content but from what i gather he is an ex officer, preaching all chl holders are guardians of the "sheeple" masses. i don't know his stance on ccw badges but most of his rhetoric seems to be in favor. But yeah his reviews are pretty cool!

I bleev he's a retired USAF C-130 pilot. Not a high speed operator type, though he likes dressing up in full battle ninja garb and doing some fun looking run & gun shooting. Only real gripe I can take from his vids, they are all feature-length He'll take 30 minutes to tell you how his breakfast was. FYI, I've never seen anything promoting CCW badges



As for the actual topic...


"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. I used to work with a martian who every day would blather on about his prowess with blades, firearms, and empty hand combat. This same schmuck would always say "I'm a crack shot, I could hit you between the eyes at a hundred yards with my point 4 0 Cougar" (his favorite, and probably only real gun, was a Stoeger Cougar .40) - he also would say stupid crap like "point four zero" or "point three eight" instead of "40 caliber" or "38 caliber" or even just "40" or "38". Metric calibers were just as annoying "nine millimeter" was too much, I guess, because he would say "nine m m." God forbid you try talking about a rifle caliber...

Clip vs mag gets old

Assault weapon describing anything but select fire military small arms.

"smokepole" bugs me for some reason, can't really explain why.

"Ceramic Glock" is also one that I just roll my eyes and face palm when I hear someone speak of such a unicorn as if it's real. I think I would like a coffee cup with a Glock Logo though, to show people. Tell 'em they can't touch it, because they couldn't afford to replace it if they dropped it and broke it cuz it cost more than they make in a month...

"Service revolver" - there might be 10 cops still walking around the US with a revolver on their hip as a "service weapon" - but the media loooooves this term, and will describe a Glock 17 as a "service revolver." If your job is to write semi-factual news articles for a living, they could at least get terminology and facts right. Seriously, I don't think that's too much to ask...

 

[mkwerx]

AR..........assault rifle. ........it chaps my hide

Cept that "AR" in "AR-15" or "AR-10" stood for "armalite rifle" not "assault rifle"

 

[GUNARCHER]

packing heat

 

[edslhead]

High caliber rifle or high power rifle