Posted on 08/13/2019 1:41:56 AM PDT by ransomnote
Full title: A breakdown of gun terminology to help you in discussions on mass shootings and debates over gun control
Given ongoing and divisive debate over gun control in the US, it's helpful to understand the breakdown of some of the most important terms that frequently come up after mass shootings.
Some of these terms might appear inconsequential, but relate strongly to discussions on what type of guns and firearm accessories should be regulated more strictly or even banned. (And some in the pro-Second Amendment camp have been known to mock people calling for new gun laws when they use incorrect terminology in reference to firearms.)
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All guns are scary with their assault clips and machine stocks.
Especially when they are painted black which makes them more powerful.
And watch out for that high-capacity military ammunition.
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It’s not so much about mocking people, but it certainly can be about showing that ignorance seems to be their only excuse when calling for more gun control instead of more crime or mentally ill control.
Business Insider is a far left site.
I was issued a rifle with a Colt AR-15 lower receiver in Army initial training. It fired full auto as well as semi-. I wonder if there was an error in the article in that regard.
Yes, it’s far left. Business Insider is based in New York and publishes editions in quite a few other countries.
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It’s August 13.
Since August 1 in Chicago, 137 people have been shot, 16 of those died.
Chicago has some of the most restrictive gun laws in the country, yet every week there’s shooting that would draw hysteria anywhere else.
Does this mass shooting not count because the mayor is a progressive, or because the victims are black?
Do gun laws do anything?
And those not in comparison to knives.
Semi-auto vs full-auto. They make no mention of burst mode (3 shot), no mention of other action types. They imply only rifles and handguns are semi-automatic, missing shotguns entirely. A minor point, but it goes towards their thoroughness (or lack thereof) and the slant they obviously want to impart here.
Assault weapons. They dance around a bit, kind of wordy. Buried in there is the anti-gun definition from 1994 (aka Clinton's) DOJ definition, and a different definition from "gun industry." Hmm, so who you going to believe, people in the field or a bunch of political hacks? And they can't resist tossing in some anti-gun propaganda at the end of the section.
AR-15. At least they get the origins of the name right. "Referred to" as America's most popular rifle. No, statistically it is, not merely referred to. They do note it traces back to 1959. Interestingly, but not surprisingly, they fail to note that this rifle has been around in civilian hands for over 50 years...so why is it suddenly a problem now? They also mention the assault weapons ban - but fail to mention that it had no effect. They mention in passing that handguns kill far more people, yet fail to ask the obvious question, "Then why be concerned over rifles if handguns are used far (far!) more often?"
High capacity magazines. They focus on 100 round magazines and their use in one particular crime. No mention at all of the real debate surrounding standard magazines for firearms in the 15, 17, 20, 30 range.
Bump stock. They describe how it works and that it makes for a scary nearly automatic style weapon - with no mention that "...bounce the rifle off of the shoulder of the shooter..." makes their use wildly inaccurate.
Red flag law. Presented as all positive, heroic judges can confiscate people's firearms if they are considered a danger... Ok, no mention of this violating Constitutionally protected rights. No mention of due process (or lack thereof). No mention of potential abuses, of costs and delays to recover firearms. No mention of the bad precedent it sets regarding firearm confiscation. Nope, pure panacea.
Gun show loophole. No mention of any measures of effectiveness in States that have implemented it - because the numbers are dismal. No mention of where most criminals obtain their firearms - because that is also unfavorable.
In short, an attempt to look informed, but really just another biased anti-gun piece.
...I saw a neat gun the other day that I really REALLY want... painted black; has a pistol grip; a really scary-looking profile; looks like one of them AR-15 guns; has an orange flash hider/compensator thingie on the muzzle ....oh, wait...it’s actually an ASSAULT AIR GUN.....
Chicago has intense gun laws, but they don’t enforce them on the criminals. Only on the law abiding.
Author left out “pew-pew”.
"The gun industry" often defines an assault rifle as a firearm with "select fire capabilities," or the ability to adjust or switch the firearm between semi-automatic and automatic settings or modes." It needs to be made clear that this is the legal definition codified without question by the ATF themselves and not just a personal opinion or perspective from the gun industry.
I remember a few years back the local news chick reported on a shooting with “AN ASSAULT RIFLE! ASSAULT RIFLE! A-S-S-AULT RIFLE!”
Finally they showed the rifle. It was an m-1 carbine from WW II. Available through the mail for sale since 1946-1968.
The word magazine is of Arabic origin and came to English by way of Italy. It originally meant "storehouse" and the Italians used magazzino as the term for the warehouses they built to store black powder in because it's design (open, airy, well-ventilated) resembled the buildings the Arab spice merchants stored their wares in, peppercorns and saffron and such.
The builders of the first known repeating rifle (the Kalthoff repeater, ca. 1630-50) used the term "magazine" to describe the rifle's internal chambers where powder and musket balls were stored. Two hundred years later, Walter Hunt described the feeding tube on the first lever-action rifle as a "tubular magazine." And the pattern was set.
A firearm "clip" serves the same general purpose as hair clip or paper clip. It's just a fastener for holding a bunch of items together.
In firearm parlance a "clip" in general is a device used to charge a magazine but that doesn't then remain inside of the weapon (first demonstrated in the "broomhandle" Mauser C-96). But Ferdinand Mannlicher sowed the seeds of the confusion with his bolt-action rifle of 1885, which loaded with an en-bloc clip, which gets loaded into the weapon right along with the cartridges.
And the damn broke after WWII because about 8 million American men returned from the war having been trained on the M1 Garand rifle, which uses an en-bloc clip. The average American serviceman only had an 8th grade education and most of these men had not received any extensive formal military "schoolhouse" training. About all they knew about firearm terminology was the the bullets go in the clip and the clip goes in the rifle. Most didn't even pronounce "Garand" correctly.
So millions of American servicemen came home (and came home victorious at that, which makes them even more credible) and they all called the metal thing you put bullets in and then stuck into a gun "a clip."
A bump stock isn't a bump stock, it's a bump-fire stock. Bump-fire is what the manufacturer called it and bump-fire is how it's termed on the patents.
Gare-end, not ga-Rand
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