Disliked gun related terms, expressions.

Howland937 said:

I did read an article where an individual was caught with an "a high caliber assault-style rifle, several hundred rounds of ammunition and 5 high powered magazines"
It nearly scared me... Then I realized that magazine springs aren't inherently deadly.

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Except for when you're removing the base plate, the spring will take your head clean off!

After reading completely through this rather long essay on what's offensive to people I'm afraid to post ANYTHING gun related for fear of upsetting someone's sensibilities.

Naw, just carry on.
I sometimes say "clip" just to distract the nitpickers so the rest of us can have a discussion of the real subject.

I often use the phrase “ out of bullets” but I’m referring to the fact that my finish nail gun is in fact without projectile/fasteners. Here in Calfabulous,the state of shock, most any reference or inference to anything firearm related
Is viewed as objectionable.

I like it when people use all the mentioned phrases and misplaced terminology---it gives me more insight into the knowledge of the person I am talking to.

Grip angle.

I can't shoot a Glock because of a grip angle. I can see that you don't like a Glock because of the grip angle. However, if you can't shoot it reasonably it is the griper rather than the grip angle. There may be more optimal angles but can't bugs me.

Pew, Pew,Pew with my finger on the booger hook.....Really?
Need I say more!

The (Navy) Captain of the USS Cole wrote an article today in the WSJ talking about the attack on his ship 20 years ago. Wrote that he immediately picked up a 9mm and two "clips."

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

"Fodder"

Over-use of units. I mean "what grain bullet should I use" or "how many FPS will that get me."

Weight of bullet..

What muzzle velocity...

Like the boolits thing, you can explain and say it's the way, but it's never not gonna be fingers on a chalkboard to me.

shoobe01 said:

Over-use of units. I mean "what grain bullet should I use" or "how many FPS will that get me."

Weight of bullet..

What muzzle velocity...

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That's like confusing the x and y axes ... no wonder I get dizzy!!

Modern Sporting Rifle

Jim Watson said:

I am annoyed by references to .32 S&W as ".32 short." Also 38 S&W as ".38 short".

But I rather fondly remember a trend in a past generation to call .38 S&W the ".38 regular" as distinct from .38 Special.
And .32 S&W Long was sometimes known as ".32 special." Which kind of makes sense if you look at a picture with nothing to identify or show scale.

Let's don't forget the $89 SKS and a case of ammo for about the same.
To be accessorized with a Tapco "30 shot 'nanner clip". Really.
The buyers of those were likely to go hunting with a Remington 7 4 2 B D L (sounded out like that) with "three times nine Redfield in a look-under bracket."
And loaded it with a Colyer Clip.
They know what a clip is.

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A nanner' clip. That's hilarious!
The only ones that really bother are typically urban slang.
Gat, strap and packin' heat.
Most folks that say things I get around, like clip and magazine being used interchangeably. I correct my wife just to aggravate her, but I really don't care.
Like some have said, I believe if we belittle new shooters for their terminology, they will feel stupid and not enjoy it, leaving our sport/right to die.

Funny thing is I worked in bullet assembly for some years. When I say "bullet assembly", I have to explain to people it was just the projectile.

JCooperfan1911 said:

Sorry but I’ve know many WW2 vets who used clip and magazine interchangeably until the day the passed.

That today’s generation can think of but nothing but to bicker on and on about something that everyone knows what the person is talking about blows my mind.

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Makes perfect sense to me to hear clip instead, as I can remember the sporting goods pages of catalogs (Montgomery Ward?) referring to today's box magazines as "clip magazines" when describing their firearms. I was just a kid, but already interested in them then.

Moparnut said:

Like some have said, I believe if we belittle new shooters for their terminology, they will feel stupid

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I've always found it bewildering when the salesperson behind the gun counter feels the need to correct a potential customer. At least wait til after you sell it before you insult their intelligence. And if you're going to correct them, try not to use equally incorrect (or even more incorrect) terminology.

This isn't confined to just firearms. Use of "Guage" where "Gauge" is what's referenced reallu gets my tic on. Doesn't matter if its in reference to a shotgun, a measuring instrument, an estimate (guage someone's abilities). I've seen this widely applied, and if you take just a moment to try phonetically pronouncing Goo-aw-gee it should leap out something's not right.

Mr. Zorg said:

This isn't confined to just firearms. Use of "Guage" where "Gauge" is what's referenced reallu gets my tic on. Doesn't matter if its in reference to a shotgun, a measuring instrument, an estimate (guage someone's abilities). I've seen this widely applied, and if you take just a moment to try phonetically pronouncing Goo-aw-gee it should leap out something's not right.

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I've seen that Gu version and also simply Gage in a lot of old American machinery manuals.

Dyslexia has nothing to do with using an annoying term or expression.

As I ponder on the posts in this thread it occurs to me that in traditional muzzle loader shooting we might have some "offensive" terms since we use balls and put our caps on the nipple...

Mr. Zorg said:

This isn't confined to just firearms. Use of "Guage" where "Gauge" is what's referenced reallu gets my tic on. Doesn't matter if its in reference to a shotgun, a measuring instrument, an estimate (guage someone's abilities). I've seen this widely applied, and if you take just a moment to try phonetically pronouncing Goo-aw-gee it should leap out something's not right.

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Did you intentionally use the wrong version?

nofendertom said:

I like it when people use all the mentioned phrases and misplaced terminology---it gives me more insight into the knowledge of the person I am talking to.

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Some know better but do it intentionally so we can have threads like this one.

bearcreek said:

Did you intentionally use the wrong version?

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Of course as I'm illustrating the use of the wrong version - it wouldn't phonetically be pronounced as goo-aw-gee with the correct version.

We often complain that automatic spell check - replace does away with technical jargon, but in this case, what IS a guage?

I hate just about everything today.

ALL the cutesy words and nicknames. Boolits. Shottie. Remmie. Winnie. Mossie. Springer. Flinter. Rocklock. Smokepole....ad infinitum, ad nauseum. Use any of these or any other of the myriad of stupid nicknames, and I will immediately discount anything and everything you have to say (I have a similar opinion of people with "Punisher" logos on their guns or gear....).

I also can't stand when people feel the overwhelming desire to interject "a revolver is not a pistol!!!!!" (yes, it is). "Get your booger hook off the bang switch!!!" (ugh) And everyone's favorite "It's not a clip, it's a magazine!!!!!!" (even gun manufacturers called them "clips" many moons ago, before being browbeaten down by the internet expert word warriors) I call them "clips" every chance I get, just to make these twerps' blood boil.