Ordnance? ... Ordinance?

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Bud Helms

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I have to give credit to Matt VDW for bringing this one up. He pointed out in a post in the Handguns and Pistolcraft Forum: [Link to invalid post"Series 70" or "Series 80"?[/url] that "ordnance" and "ordinance" have different definitions. I like attention to detail. Reloaders usually do and all shooters should.

Some people call attention to detail at this level "anal", but our pastime of defending RKBA is filled with the effort to use facts against emotion and politics. I think it's related.

Does anyone have any other misused terms, especially related to guns that they have heard? I thought of "nucular" for "nuclear". That's just a pronunciation thing. The meaning is not different. It's not really "gun" related either. Former President Jimmy Carter, from the great state of Georgia, and a former U.S.Navy "Nucular" Physicist was bad about this one. Embarrasing!

Of course there is "semi-auto" vs "auto", but we aggravate that misuse ourselves by using "auto" as a lazy reference to what we know is really "semi-auto". Any others?

How about "hard" vs "difficult"?

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Ordnance = something all TFLers want and enjoy.
Ordinance = sometimes a necessary evil.

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by sensop:

Former President Jimmy Carter, from the great state of Georgia, and a former U.S.Navy "Nucular" Physicist was bad about this one. Embarrasing!
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I believe he stated on T.V. that he was a "Nucular Enganear" not Physicist.Still a Faux Pa'.



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TomDeCarver SASS AMERICAN LEGION NRA
 
Jimma was a nuclear engineer, not a physicist, big difference. He worked with RA Rickover on the nuke sub program. My neighbor reported directly to Rickover, he has some interesting stories about that cantankerous old man.
 
One that drives me crazy is "class 3 guns." There is no such thing. It's "class 3 dealers" who sell "NFA weapons."

Mike D.

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Nucular Engineer is absolutely correct ... my mistake. There is a big difference. On second thought, that may explain why I expected so much from him and was so disappointed.
 
My pet peave lately has been "high capacity magazines". They hold the number of cartridges the designer intended them to, instead of the number that our beloved government will allow them too.

Of course, there is always the word "bullet" being used instead of the proper term cartridge.
Eric

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Formerly Puddle Pirate.
Teach a kid to shoot.
It annoys the antis.
 
Bullet vs Cartridge IS a good one. I hear that all the time from my loving wife: "Going to play with your bullets?" or a call at work: "Did you order some more bullets?"

I've heard "detonator" used for "primer" too.
 
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