My supervisor just dropped the phrase "personal firearm integrity". I think it is a much better phrase/topic than "gun control". Let's start talking about personal firearm integrity instead of gun control.
Agreed. But I think they're along the right idea.
Have a simple phrase to indicate a person's responsibility to properly store and handle firearms.
In my opinion, that's really what this country needs, it's for people to be more responsible with the guns that they own. Kind of like how the video game industry has tried to self regulate to keep the government from regulating for them. If we asfirearms owners would you do an even better job at making sure our guns don't end up in the hands of the wrong people, the government might not have as much credit as they're trying to take in this debate.
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It's not gun control anyway, it's people control.
Exactly -- and those that control the language get to control the debate. So let's up the ante with better language like that suggested by the OP.
My contribution: I will no longer recognize the term "assault weapon", even if to use it in quotes to call out some libtard on the improper usage. Instead, I plan to use "personal defense weapon" as used recently on a government agency Request For Proposal (RFP). Their specification included select fire capability but I think the term better fits the usage, no matter if it has select fire or not.
I can accept "assault rifle," but only if it's applied to, you know, an "assault rifle," a selective-fire rifle firing an intermediate rifle cartridge. For the semi-auto versions, I prefer the terminology used by Cam Edwards on the NRA News Cam & Company podcast: Modern Sporting Rifle.
Assault rifle is a bullcrap term even when using it to describe full autos. I never heard that term even one time when I was in the army. They were called rifles or weapons.
Assault rifle is a bullcrap term even when using it to describe full autos. I never heard that term even one time when I was in the army. They were called rifles or weapons.
It goes back to the original assault rifle, the German StG 44, or Sturmgewehr 44. Sturmgewehr translates to "Storm (or Assault) Rifle."
It's a perfectly legitimate term to describe that class of rifles; "assault weapon" is a BS term, "semi-automatic assault rifle" is an oxymoron, and "semi-automatic assault weapon" is just word salad.
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This may be a stupid question on my part, but what does the "AR" stand for in AR-15?
