GunnySkox
Member
Hi everyone, first post, and all that.
Necessary info: Seventeen (just turned on the 20th), limited gun experience (Fired: P11, SKS, RRA AR-15, Cougar 8045, FN Police shotgun; fired more extensively: Mini-14 Ranch, Maverick Field 88), little practical knowledge of firearms, fair amounts of "reading articles" knowledge, try to be as anal-retentive about the four-rules as possible.
Alright, I was thinking about the AWB, and how whenever I try to chat with my friends about such things, invariably, they are confused by the terminology (as was intended by the gun-grabbers and their ilk) and loaded language; especially "confusing" ideas were semi versus fully automatic weapons (it's that "automatic" in there) and I thought it might be a good idea to try and make up some counter-terms to combat the emotional bullhockey that the grabbers used to villify our favored tools.
Now, I must confess that my ideas actually came from video games. I know this'll draw some flak from posters with more years and rounds under and on their belt than me, but I, and this is the softest, most non-trollish way I can put it, don't care.
Onto the ideas:
Semiautomatic rifle ("assault weapon")
Semiautomatic sounds evil, mechanical; it's "automatic" (makes the unknowledgeable think MACHINEGUN, eep! run!) with a prefix. The replacement here comes from two sources: the fact that the AR-15 (evilest of the evil among "assault weapons") is used in highpower competition a lot, and the game Red Faction. In RF, there was a weapon called the "Precision Rifle" that was a semiautomatic and was highly accurate with a little scope on it.
The term would be "Precision rifle." At the same time, this term does away with the word "automatic" and helps dispell the myth of "bullet hoses" and "spraying high volumes of ammunition from the hip" with a semiauto. "Precision" doesn't sound quite as scary as "assault" or "semitautomatic".
On another note, the PR in RF looked like an AR and a G36 had babies that grew into big, angry, beige rifles.
Another idea I had to replace "semiautomatic" was born of the Fallout Series of games. Semiauto weapons in that game are referred to as "single-shot". What a wonderful thought! You can't spray anything if it's "single-shot." And, in context, with a semiauto, "single shot" is very true. You only get a single shot per trigger pull. Single doesn't sound very threatening at all (no comments on marksmanship, please, I'm talking about dealing with the war of words, not practicality [or tacticality
]).
More ideas more than welcome, as are critiques and such (not that I could stop ye...).
Honestly, I had more, but I lost my train of thought. It derailed while I was gawking at some delicious gun-pr0n somewhere else on the board...
~Slam_Fire
I am a malfunction!
PS. I'd been digging around here for about a month before I registered, and I'd like to say that THR is one of the most civil forums I've yet seen on the annoyingly idiot-ridden interweb.
ON EDIT: Dang, I just saw the "Marketing Strategy" thread, and this'n's really similar >.< Maybe I should've poster on that'n..
Necessary info: Seventeen (just turned on the 20th), limited gun experience (Fired: P11, SKS, RRA AR-15, Cougar 8045, FN Police shotgun; fired more extensively: Mini-14 Ranch, Maverick Field 88), little practical knowledge of firearms, fair amounts of "reading articles" knowledge, try to be as anal-retentive about the four-rules as possible.
Alright, I was thinking about the AWB, and how whenever I try to chat with my friends about such things, invariably, they are confused by the terminology (as was intended by the gun-grabbers and their ilk) and loaded language; especially "confusing" ideas were semi versus fully automatic weapons (it's that "automatic" in there) and I thought it might be a good idea to try and make up some counter-terms to combat the emotional bullhockey that the grabbers used to villify our favored tools.
Now, I must confess that my ideas actually came from video games. I know this'll draw some flak from posters with more years and rounds under and on their belt than me, but I, and this is the softest, most non-trollish way I can put it, don't care.
Onto the ideas:
Semiautomatic rifle ("assault weapon")
Semiautomatic sounds evil, mechanical; it's "automatic" (makes the unknowledgeable think MACHINEGUN, eep! run!) with a prefix. The replacement here comes from two sources: the fact that the AR-15 (evilest of the evil among "assault weapons") is used in highpower competition a lot, and the game Red Faction. In RF, there was a weapon called the "Precision Rifle" that was a semiautomatic and was highly accurate with a little scope on it.
The term would be "Precision rifle." At the same time, this term does away with the word "automatic" and helps dispell the myth of "bullet hoses" and "spraying high volumes of ammunition from the hip" with a semiauto. "Precision" doesn't sound quite as scary as "assault" or "semitautomatic".
On another note, the PR in RF looked like an AR and a G36 had babies that grew into big, angry, beige rifles.
Another idea I had to replace "semiautomatic" was born of the Fallout Series of games. Semiauto weapons in that game are referred to as "single-shot". What a wonderful thought! You can't spray anything if it's "single-shot." And, in context, with a semiauto, "single shot" is very true. You only get a single shot per trigger pull. Single doesn't sound very threatening at all (no comments on marksmanship, please, I'm talking about dealing with the war of words, not practicality [or tacticality
]).More ideas more than welcome, as are critiques and such (not that I could stop ye...).
Honestly, I had more, but I lost my train of thought. It derailed while I was gawking at some delicious gun-pr0n somewhere else on the board...
~Slam_Fire
I am a malfunction!
PS. I'd been digging around here for about a month before I registered, and I'd like to say that THR is one of the most civil forums I've yet seen on the annoyingly idiot-ridden interweb.
ON EDIT: Dang, I just saw the "Marketing Strategy" thread, and this'n's really similar >.< Maybe I should've poster on that'n..
