The Gun Counter

In the old forum we had this thread and it gained quite a bit of hits so I've resurrected it here as an offshoot of the Oxford 10 Worst Phrases...

WORDS OUT OF FAVOUR

Concealment – when we mean cover – when we mean concealment…

Shoot to STOP - when we really mean kill…

Harvest a <insert animal name> - when we mean killed a <insert animal name>…

Harvest a <insert animal name> - when we never planted any <insert animal name> seed for it to grow our little furry animal friends…

Magnum - automatically makes it more powerful, thusly shouldn’t be used for defence because it might hurt the criminal more—kill him deader?

Sniper rifle - when referring to any rifle with a scope mounted…

Assault rifle - if its got a clip etc....

Machine Gun – only if it is a crew served, bi or tri pod mounted, belt or drum fed, continuous fire weapon of rifle or greater caliber—all others are just automatic or select fire weapons not machine guns…

Automatic - referring to a semi auto firearm…

Automatic - inferring that it is a machine gun…

Machine gun – when they mean assault rifle or sub machine gun…
Sub machine gun - when they mean assault rifle - when they mean sub machine gun…

Evil black rifle - for any plastic stocked rifle even a single shot youth shotgun…

.50 Caliber - when referring to a blackpowder firearm and not a BMG but the GFW shite-for-brains don’t know the difference…

Aeroplane killer - .50 BMG rifles…

.50 BMG - available at any gun store and especially gun shows so a terrorist can buy them there whenever they want…

.50 BMG - automatically makes you into a 1 mile away killer, with no training of course…

Long range – when the shot was taken at 120 yards (DC Snipers e.g.)…

Shrapnel – when actually they mean bomb fragments, shards of glass, flying stones and debris not little round balls fired out of a cannon (smoothbore) and designed by Lt. (later General) Shrapnel during the Napoleonic War…

Socialist/ism – when they mean liberal, ist, ism

Right wing -

Left wing -

Conservative -

Liberal -

Privilege -

Right(s)

Over kill- As if being deader is a bad Idea.

Socialist/ism – when they mean liberal, ist, ism

Actually, I would consider this usage backward, i.e., a (modern as opposed to classical) liberal is a socialist. Why? Because liberalism is a term more widely used than socialist. I believe that this is why the term was co-opted from the classical liberals; it's perceived as more "friendly" (because most folks associate socialism with European socialism and, possibly, with communism) and liberal used to be synonymous with "freedom". Who could be against freedom, eh?

Now liberalism is the philosophy of Big Govt which is, of course, socialism.

Arsenal - As the plural for gun
Horde - Meaning more than 1 round of ammunition

princewally wrote:Arsenal - As the plural for gun
Horde - Meaning more than 1 round of ammunition

Do they say hoard as in to amass or is it horde because it is a large group or pack of them?

Armoury contains them and the arsenal fixes them according to other postings in another thread...

Macmillan Contemporary Dictionary defines:

• Armoury n. British Armory American n.
• 1. building that is the headquarters and training center of a National Guard or other military reserve unit,
• 2. place were arms are kept; arsenal,
• 3. place were arms are manufactured.

Arsenal n,

• 1. place for storing or manufacturing arms and munitions.
• 2. collection or accumulation of firearms or other weapons.
• 3. storehouse

SeekHer wrote:

princewally wrote:Arsenal - As the plural for gun
Horde - Meaning more than 1 round of ammunition

Do they say hoard as in to amass or is it horde because it is a large group or pack of them?

Crap. They say hoard.

I'm not worried about the dictionary definition of arsenal. I'm using the newspaper definition.