Jim Watson
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I see someone on TV say, "That dude is bias!"
Similarly, the common description, "That fix is genius."
While I am here, I will say that "iconic" is the current overused cliche. Just as I thought "tactical" was fading.
I see someone on TV say, "That dude is bias!"
It could be argued that each of us is (at least some of the time) attempting to describe the character that we see ourself as and creating color and atmosphere to surround that character with.My English teachers drummed into my head that you don't use slang when writing except to describe character, create color or atmosphere...
Exactly but they were going after AKM's first insisting they were the same thing as an AK47. While the 2 rifles look a lot alike, the operate very differently...^^^ "Assault weapon" is neither slang nor jargon. "Assault weapon" is a phony term that was invented for the express purpose of confusing the American public into thinking that a semi-automatic AR-15 is exactly the same as a full-auto M16 military issue rifle.
"Assault weapon" is a phony term that was invented for the express purpose of confusing the American public into thinking that a semi-automatic AR-15 is exactly the same as a full-auto M16 military issue rifle.
44 AMP said:It was a phony made up term, for the reason you state, UNTIL they wrote it into law. Then it became a legal definition.
Which means it's not a definition (legal or otherwise) in any real world sense, it's just a phony concept that was invented for the express purpose of confusing the American public ...
I was looking for ballistics stuff when I found a site where the author kept talking about "come-ups." By which he meant "holdover" or "bullet drop"; it was hard to tell. Then I found a bunch more references to "come-ups" on other sites.
Best as I can tell, it came from the airsofters, and now it has infected real guns.
44 AMP said:Anyway, point is that if the state has a law that says a certain gun is an "assault weapon" then in that state with that law being valid, legally that gun is an "assault weapon".
Reality doesn't matter much when you can define what words mean.
This may sound argumentative, I do not mean for it to be, but since the general subject here is communication, I’ll submit that you’ve described this process poorly.When I shoot long range with a pistol I don't hold over the target, I raise the front sight in the rear notch, with my target on top of it, so, I am holding the front sight "over" its regular position. I call that holdover, I suppose someone else could say I "come up" on the front sight. Either way, the result is the same, my sight picture allows me to still see my target, and the alignment of the sights allows for the longer range trajectory.
And, since the sights are designed to have the tops of the front and rear sights aligned horizontally, by lowering the rear sight all you are doing is aiming higher.Sevens said:What you are doing (I do it also) would be better described not by saying that you raised your front sight (afterall, you still hold that front sight under your target same as always), but that you very much lowered your rear sight… to the place where the front sight nestles in.