Gun terms you HATE

[cmort666]

"Shotty" for shotgun.

If the pajama boy had a shotgun (He'd probably pee himself at the mere sight of one in a magazine.), he'd call it a "shotty".

Cutesy Brit slang like "shotty" and "tooled" makes me want to go all "Anton Chigurh" on the users.

 

[Rustyt1953]

The dimwits calling a magazine a clip! Seriously.... they need to lay off the dope!

My father, an ETO combat vet, called magazines 'clips' his entire life as did a lot of his legion buddies.

I don't recall them being dimwits.

 

[walkinghorse]

Read a new gun? term on another forum this morning. The poster was a new guy, post #1, and he was asking for help with a parts gun project. He had a receiver and barrel, and a few internal parts and wanted to know what he needed to do in order to get it ¿chooching?
I asked for clarification of the term's intent!
Another poster speculated as in a train choo- chooing, thinking getting it running like a train!
I guess like Cheers, Cliff Clavern, was asked, What is the color of the sky in your world?

 

[hangnoose]

NOT JUST YET.

You guys need to change with the times on the whole "clip vs magazine" thing. Language is dynamic and definitions change in order to reflect common usage. Common usage (whether "right" or "wrong") drives the definition, not the other way around.

Most sources now define "clip" in a manner like this:

a device to hold cartridges for charging the magazines of some rifles; also : a magazine from which ammunition is fed into the chamber of a firearm

They also list "magazine" and "clip" as synonyms. This has changed over my lifetime. The definition of "Pistol" vs "Revolver" has also changed over my lifetime.

If you still disagree, I suggest you post only in Shakespearean English.

20 words that once meant something very different |

In the future, perhaps. Right now there are still enough guns out there using true clips, such as the SKS, that there is a distinct difference between the two & enough #'s of them, to warrant using the correct word and not broadcast your ignorance." Better to keep your mouth closed & let everyone think you are a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt".

 

[Rustyt1953]

 

[Jack Flash]

One term gun writers seem to use a lot is "inherently accurate" as in "the .44 Special is an inherently accurate cartridge." The thing is, there do not seem to be any "inherently inaccurate" cartridges ever mentioned in the gun rags. Anyways, I would think the firearm itself is either accurate or inaccurate, it doesn't depend on the cartridge.

As others do, I also object to the term "gun violence". If a gang-banger tries to run over a rival, is that "car violence"?

It's "sights", not "sites".

I'm not sure I understand, could you cite an example?

 

[cmort666]

My father, an ETO combat vet, called magazines 'clips' his entire life as did a lot of his legion buddies.

I don't recall them being dimwits.

Of course, unless they used M1 Carbines, they used long guns that used clips...

 

[Rustyt1953]

Of course, unless they used M1 Carbines, they used long guns that used clips...

I get it. The turnip truck left long ago. The point is that they called 'all' magazines clips. I knew what they meant.

 

[Jack Flash]

IIRC, the original patent application for what became the Colt Model of 1911 referred to its detachable magazines as "clips". That was circa 1905 or thereabouts ...

 

[the ringo kid]

Referring to a firearm as "sexy" is just wrong, on so many levels...

NOT if yer talking about "Black Widow" Lugers. I had one once and STUPIDLY got rid of it. Been kicking myself for 20 years now.

 

[the ringo kid]

Fodder for ammunition.

Wasn't Davy Crockett's rifle "Old Betsy"? I keep track of Davy, he and I share the same birthday, August 17.

Yes, and Daniel Boone's rifle was Tick-licker.

 

[the ringo kid]

How about "Followed Me Home"

That is next to impossible!

"Begged to be taken home by me" is much much better.

 

[the ringo kid]

You sir-ave too much time for your fingers like to do the lookin.

 

[the ringo kid]

PS, im not "really" going to have an apoplexy over them-just secretly laughing at the human errors.

 

[the ringo kid]

PS, im NOT going to have an apoplexy over human error-just a good laff.

 

[eahicks]

Not so much a gun term, but sick of seeing, that one guy on every forum, when discussing self defense..... "Better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6." So overused.


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[eahicks]

Also "keep your bugger hook off the bang switch".


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[M E Morrison]

Also "keep your bugger hook off the bang switch".


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Generally I hear it as "booger hook"......

 

[eahicks]

Generally I hear it as "booger hook"......

Yeah. Booger. Brain didn't tell fingers how to type that word right.


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[Old Corp]

With some years behind the gun counter, the list of terms that are like fingernails on chalkboard to me....
- Ya got enny 'Smith 'n Westerns'?

- Lookin' me a Mossenberger shotgun....

- You just don't see many Harrison-Richards guns anymore.

- 'I'll not have an AR15 without a picaninny rail'.

- I wanna handgun with a beam on it'. (referring to Crimson Trace LaserGrips)

- Need some Fo-hundred an' ten slugs for deer. They knock'em down jes lak a rifle'.

- Set me up for 1000 yd. shooting....best of everything, Rifle, optics, bipod, match ammo, everything. I can go as high as $350.