Modern gunpowder is not an explosive, it is a propellant.
LOL! Don’t you wish it were that simple? These asshats would argue over OUR semantics but their word usage is just fine. Of course they’ll be using their “How to sell gun control in 10 easy steps” manual found here:
http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/748675/gun-violencemessaging-guide-pdf-1.pdf
AKA “Preventing Gun Violence Through Effective Messaging”
Guess they don’t want to appear “threatening” to us “not super sophisticated” types.