Nebulous Terms and Silly Gun Expressions

[hso]

Whatever happened to Gecko 45?

Moved to up north with a wife and kid.

 

[Nodakdad]

Mine is when you see a for sale add and they describe the item as "minty" , sounds like a tern a teenage girl uses to describe her new light green colored purse

 

[PistoleroWadcutterGANG]

Really sick of hearing "Priceless" / "Keep calm and Glock" such things.

 

[Waveski]

There is one term I despise more than Scottie-
and that is bang switch.
What is wrong with “TRIGGER”???

 

[Jim Watson]

Applies to many things, not just guns, but “iconic” just gets up my nose
about as bad as “tactical.”

 

[rust collector]

Another one I just thought of is "high caliber rifle," often in reference to 5.56. That sounds to me like someone trying to emulate a BBC commentator who in turn is trying to sound shocked that such potent armament exists outside the military environment. Oh, the horror!

 

[Varminterror]

I’ve been loathing “co-witness” for about 20yrs now… before that, aligning sights together was just aligning two sights. True “co-witnessing” is the superimposition process our brain does by overlaying the images from both of our eyes, and has nothing to do, at all, with line of sight alignment of two sights.

I heard a new one recently which sure sounded good online, but in its truest sense is absolute nonsense. “Kinematic ratio” and “infinite focal plane” to describe a sight. When I was finishing my minor in physics, kinematics were my area of focus, and the application of the term described by the user was pure BS. Equally, as a professional photographer with degrees in engineering and physics, I can appreciate his misguided belief in what “infinite focal plane” might have meant, but I can also assure the world, the sight being described isn’t an infinite focal plane device…

But hey, it all sure sounds great online…

 

[The Night Rider]

This got me thinking. Whatever happened to Gecko 45?

Tamara Keel claims that he was a Co-worker of hers in a gunshop in Indiana.

Obviously, he was trolling Glocktalk

The highlights are on a website called "Lonely Machines".

 

[Leon tP]

Point Blank Range when it gets used to mean contact distance and can only mean contact distance. It's practically a synonym now.
I've seen quite a few CSI type shows that keep pounding that into the minds of the general populous.

 

[lead-inspector]

Yep , that was a loose reference to him. I miss those times on the internet.
I bet many here don’t even know what a “mall ninja” was much less who the term was coined after.

Nope. I remember,and almost commented on that post.

 

[CapnMac]

The "pew" thing remains amusing, as it began as a mocking reference to how "space laser" sound effects were rendered into low-budget Science Fiction (hence the "pew! pew! pew!" rendering).

 

[WestKentucky]

I have found that a lot of revolver guys really dislike the term “wheel gun”

And semi-auto guys are kinda OK if you call it a slide gun, but they can get downright nasty when you call it a bottom-feeder

 

[CDW4ME]

Page 3 and miraculously not mentioned yet...
The nonsensical phrase that exists only on gun forums, "caliber war"

Invoking claim of nonsensical "caliber war" is a whiny way of saying I don't like your caliber discussion.
And if there ever was the mythical "caliber war" 9mm was the ultimate winner and everybody knows it, centerfire ammo sales would support its victory.
Now we only have caliber discussions and if someone says 25/32 acp is lacking for self defense compared to 9mm/40 that is not "caliber war" - Please don't invoke.

 

[GEM]

Thinking that using the term "Modern Sporting Rifle" will help stop gun bans.

Two Headlines:

1. Maniac with assault rifle shoots 25 first graders.
2. Maniac with modern sporting rifle shoots 25 first graders.

Of course, #2 will stop gun banning efforts dead in their tracks. It is just giving in to a sports metaphor for gun ownership that has never worked in preserving ownership across the world.

 

[Resist Evil]

The number one "nebulous term" that I despise is "gun violence." As inanimate machines, guns cannot commit a violent act.

 

[21H40]

Page 3 and miraculously not mentioned yet...
The nonsensical phrase that exists only on gun forums, "caliber war"

Invoking claim of nonsensical "caliber war" is a whiny way of saying I don't like your caliber discussion.
And if there ever was the mythical "caliber war" 9mm was the ultimate winner and everybody knows it, centerfire ammo sales would support its victory.
Now we only have caliber discussions and if someone says 25/32 acp is lacking for self defense compared to 9mm/40 that is not "caliber war" - Please don't invoke.

That reminds me- I was going to start a thread on using 17 HMR for SD

flat shooting laser!

 

[DeepSouth]

The number one "nebulous term" that I despise is "gun violence." As inanimate machines, guns cannot commit a violent act.

In come cases I don’t mind that term. It can allow the follow up question, “So do you care about other forms of violence and abuse?” Of course they answer in the affirmative, and if the person is sincere in the discussion you can move away from the presumption of gun control in favor of crime control.

 

[Leon tP]

That reminds me- I was going to start a thread on using 17 HMR for SD

flat shooting laser!

Yeah, but the 22 WMR is more "Powerful" because it has more Foot-Pounds...


See what I did there?


One gun term I could do without is "Ghost Gun". If I never see that expression used again in my life... well, I'd be okay with that.

 

[Necessary_Nutrient]

Thinking that using the term "Modern Sporting Rifle" will help stop gun bans.

Two Headlines:

1. Maniac with assault rifle shoots 25 first graders.
2. Maniac with modern sporting rifle shoots 25 first graders.

Of course, #2 will stop gun banning efforts dead in their tracks. It is just giving in to a sports metaphor for gun ownership that has never worked in preserving ownership across the world.

nice example. We should at least be concerned by the event itself in addition to being peeved by anything that inconveniences us

 

[Legionnaire]

Not a fan of “tack driver.” A bit nonsensical and way overused.

 

[Mauser fan]

The idiotic reference that pistol cartridges are Caps. I'm gonna bust a Cap in you.

 

[Old Dog]

One thing that I appreciate about this forum is that (as far as I've noticed), no one uses the term "hella" to prefix adjectives or adverbs. Mostly, we all talk like grown-ups here. Mostly.

Terms I despise:
- Assault rifle
- Gun violence (when someone is beat to death, do we say, "Hammer violence?" or when someone is stabbed to death, is it "Knife violence?" It's freakin' violence.)
- Fudd (way overused, often inappropriately and often just thrown out there if someone disagrees with an absolutist position.)
- Shotty
- Mossy
- Remmy
- "Prolly" (okay, not a gun term, but let's spell out probably and forgo typing stuff like middle-schoolers)
- Burner
- Blaster
- Boom stick
- Strap/strapped
- Heater
- Boolits (just why?)
- Piece
- Tacticool (We get it, we can make fun of some of these folks, but let's let this one go, please.)
- Tack driver (I have an upholstery hammer, does that count?)
- Pew pew (except as a sound effect in the only worthy Star Wars flicks, the original three)

Phrases I despise (without getting into the rhetoric and hyperbole used by the antigun faction):
- "The gun went off" (someone pulled the trigger)
- "Gunshots rang out" (gunfire is not a ringing sound, obviously, although my ears ring all the time these days)
- Glock Perfection (no man-made object is perfect)
-"A handgun is just for fighting your way to your long gun/rifle"
- "High-powered rifle" (a meaningless description when used by clueless news reporters)

 

[The Night Rider]

One gun term I could do without is "Ghost Gun". If I never see that expression used again in my life... well, I'd be okay with that.

I was watching an episode of The Woke Rookie one night and one of the detectives was busting a "Ghost Gun" outlet.

She told the evil ghost gun dealer that the gun that she bought had to be a ghost because it had to be "untraceable".

And I'm sitting there thinking if you're buying a stolen gun and you're not filling out of 4473 how in the hell are they going to trace it to you anyway?

 

[The Night Rider]

The idiotic reference that pistol cartridges are Caps. I'm gonna bust a Cap in you.

That comes from back when they used to use percussion caps as primers to set off the charge and fire the gun. The term "Bust a Cap" was in using the 1800s.

I don't remember if it was in the movie but in the book True Grit Lucky Ned Pepper tells Mattie Ross "I've never busted a cap on a woman or anybody much under 16." That was correct for the time period

 

[Old Dog]

I was watching an episode of The Woke Rookie one night

All the CBS, NBC and ABC cop shows are totally woke. SWAT is the worst.

She told the evil ghost gun dealer that the gun that she bought had to be a ghost because it had to be "untraceable".

Just like the show CSI Miami in which CBS talks about registered firearms in Florida and can find a gun owner (complete with his/her photograph!) on their computers based on a bullet or shell casing they recover at a crime scene.

Yeah, television has always been the main perpetuator of nebulous terms and silly gun expresssions; it's gotten so much worse in the past few years.