New Hoplophobe Term Hits The Lefty Lexicon

Couldn't have been a couple of Browning High Powers could they? Naw that would be way too accurate for the media. Snicker snicker.

It's no fun to name firearms by make and caliber. They have to jazz it up so you keep coming back for updates.

I wish I had kept the article because it was almost funny. The local rag which we sometimes called the red star because of it's left nature, published a picture of a revolver and referred to it as high-capacity semi-automatic assault gun pistol, if I recall correctly. This was before the internet was common so it's not like they haven't been making this stuff up for a long time. It was a long time ago so I may have forgotten the exact words that they used but you get the drift.

''....nature, published a picture of a revolver and referred to it as high-capacity semi-automatic assault gun pistol...''

Remember reporter talk. All rifles are AK47s. All handguns are GLocks.
Revolver- GLock
Break action 410 shotgun- AK
Black powder handgun - GLock
Javelin- AK
Multi-rubberband toy gun- AK
Boating flaregun- GLock

etc.

I can't wait for them to use "High Powered Military Style Knife" next.

"Sniper Rifle"...any long gun with a scope.

Well, we can just thank our lucky stars that he didn't get a hold of any ghost guns or 30 round magazine clips!

I believe that the term "high powered rifle" actually originated in the gun world. For example, we have High Power rifle competitions. All that "high power" means is that the gun fires something bigger than .22 LR.

Terms like this often start out as marketing ploys, directed at gun owners. Then they get picked up and misused by the antigun press. Remember that most of the public knows very little about guns.

Browning's pistol of 1935 is a Hi-Power because it held more cartridges (13) than any of the other semi-auto handguns in use at the time.
It is doubtful the talking head knew this. I guess a 50AE Desert Eagle is a high powered handgun.

Vinnie Boombatz said:

undoubtedly everyone here has heard the fake news gun-control propaganda term 'high-powered rifle'. well, today - while watching my local abc fake news affiliate report on the manhunt for the lefty anti-trump psycho - they reported he stole, among other things, 'high-powered handguns'. i got a good laugh at their ever hysterical creativity, so i figured i'd share in case it was new to anyone else

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This fails as a straw man fallacy.

My favorite was when Bill O'Reilly called M15s "weapons of mass destruction".

jdc1244 said:

This fails as a straw man fallacy.

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I don't follow...

I once heard a reporter refer to a concrete truck as a "grout truck". Nuff said. We're living in a world where "you know what I mean" is "good enough" and you're not supposed to make corrections because someone might get their feelings hurt. Everyone knows that hurt feelings are the worst possible outcome of any situation.

Nothing exactly new about either term. The assorted media types have been making such terms up for eons. TV reporters are the worst when they're reporting about a stabbing but have a picture of a handgun behind them.

Walkalong said:

The antis love any adjective that makes guns sounds deadlier, scarier, etc. Nothing new here. An oldie but goodie is "Saturday Night Special". Oh those scary SNS's. Of course they wrote the potential legislation to ban them to include almost all handguns.

It's just how they roll.

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One of the reporters around here occasionally says bullets "slice through the night"

danez71 said:

One of the reporters around here occasionally says bullets "slice through the night"

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Sounds like he moonlights as a pulp fiction writer.

Hopefully they didn't have "high-powered magazines"

AlexanderA said:

I believe that the term "high powered rifle" actually originated in the gun world. For example, we have High Power rifle competitions. All that "high power" means is that the gun fires something bigger than .22 LR.

Terms like this often start out as marketing ploys, directed at gun owners. Then they get picked up and misused by the antigun press. Remember that most of the public knows very little about guns.

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^^^Yep, I grew up with folks around me referring to any long gun other than a rimfire or shotgun as a "high-power rifle". Seems folks applying the term to handguns would basically just be extrapolating the same values. As a matter of fact, I've had folks call some of my revolvers "High Powered Hunting Handguns" when describing them.....didn't seem funny at the time. Nor, IMHO, is anything with the Jakuboski situation. Seems he was spotted in the adjoining School District and they went into lockdown. Our School District is out for spring break, so no kids are there(other than sports practices) but we went into a "soft" lockdown and were put on alert. So, whatever a reporter called the stolen firearms is really of no big concern here, only the safety of the kids and staff. Whatever you want or don't want to call those stolen handguns, the threat is the same.

Well, they could have been referring to .44 Magnum, 10mm, .50AE, .500 S&W, or AK47 and AR15 "pistols", and not be incorrect!

Were they loaded with "deadly high powered military style" ammo or "deadly exploding cop killer" hollow points?

jim in Anchorage said:

My favorite was when Bill O'Reilly called M15s "weapons of mass destruction".

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I like O'Reilly.....but I wish he'd learn something about guns, firearms, ofdnance, and the laws on the books before he starts yapping about guns......he still thinks you can walk into some mythical store and buy handgrenades and bazookas. Someone should tell him bazookas are obsolete, and no one sells grenades to civies.
He's a smart guy. I'm sure he could handle the news....

.....long as he doesn't decide to do it live........