Weapon or Firearm

Yeah, nearly everyone doesn't think it matters if you call a rifle a (shot)gun and nobody has the slightest problem when you call a bow a firearm (certainly not in Ontario), but if you say weapon it shows you cannot have a clue...
LOL
Isn't it ridiculous, that we prefer to use completely incorrect terms to avoid the semantics that an otherwise technically correct word might be associated with.

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Originally Posted by MikePal

Saw more than few few guys chanting this up on the table in the corner at boot camp..

..it's a 'rifle' lads.........

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First thing I thought of Mike. That and the dope smoker's term "clip" instead of Magazine got a few laps and push ups at the Academy. lol

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Originally Posted by skypilot

First thing I thought of Mike. That and the dope smoker's term "clip" instead of Magazine got a few laps and push ups at the Academy. lol

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Even the experts get it wrong sometimes

Have a look at this Savage "clip" (word just visible on left hand side)

http://www.brownells.com/userdocs/pr...95340030_1.jpg

Yup.....

http://www.knewance.com/storage/post...EVERSION=12792

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Originally Posted by blasted_saber

Even the experts get it wrong sometimes

Have a look at this Savage "clip" (word just visible on left hand side)

http://www.brownells.com/userdocs/pr...95340030_1.jpg

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I agree Blasted Saber, but Savage didn't have the power of pass or fail over me. lol

iam for guns/firearm i dont thinkive heard any say yah i got weapons license or ill go grab my weapons after all there is Chief firearms officer must be a city thing maby a hipster lol

From the CC of C

“weapon”
« arme »
“weapon” means any thing used, designed to be used or intended for use

• (a) in causing death or injury to any person, or
  
• (b) for the purpose of threatening or intimidating any person

and, without restricting the generality of the foregoing, includes a firearm and, for the purposes of sections 88, 267 and 272, any thing used, designed to be used or intended for use in binding or tying up a person against their will;

http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/a...46/page-1.html

HA

This is my rifle...............THIS is my GUN............one is for killin and one is for fun.

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Originally Posted by bdog

I don't call them weapons, and the same goes for,I prefer to harvest, not just kill something

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Can't say I've ever used the term "harvest" when it comes to hunting. Actually, I guess that was the first time.

"Weapon" just sounds odd when used in reference to hunting. Not necessarily wrong, just out of place. Come to think of it, I rarely ever use "firearm" either. I suppose most of the time it's "rifle", "shotgun", "muzzle-loader" and if I'm feeling lazy and want to keep it to one syllable I'll use "gun".

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Originally Posted by huntaway

From the CC of C

“weapon”
« arme »
“weapon” means any thing used, designed to be used or intended for use

• (a) in causing death or injury to any person, or
• (b) for the purpose of threatening or intimidating any person

and, without restricting the generality of the foregoing, includes a firearm and, for the purposes of sections 88, 267 and 272, any thing used, designed to be used or intended for use in binding or tying up a person against their will;

http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/a...46/page-1.html

HA

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Yes, anything can be a weapon, including firearms. However, we don't hunt with weapons, not unless you're hunting people, which as i understand it, is illegal.