Not terribly happy with engineer speak "platform", to me a platform is someone you stand on, perhaps while shooting...
Operator? I was an operator for over 3 decades, none of my work ever involved a firearm.
what really torques my sense of dignity is "shotty" and "wheely".
decades ago, we could get away with a little tongue in cheek humor, smokepole, even calling semiauto military style .22LRs "assault rifles,, when we ALL knew they weren't, really. but today, no one seems to understand any humor about firearms, and all it does is come off sounding immature and childish.
And that reflects poorly on the image of being sensible and responsible.
I'm old (by my reconing, anyway) and would be a "low speed high drag operator" I suppose, but I'm comfortable with using terms that I've used my whole life, THE WAY I've used them my whole life, and don't really care much for having people younger than my own children redefine MY world without even asking.
Never realized until I saw it on the Internet that a 1911 had a "dustcover". Never any part like that in my Army manuals, just "frame" one each...
Tires/wheels motor/engine, and the "dreaded" clip/magazine, people mismatch and misuse these in common conversation all the time, but we get by, until you have to order parts, then you BETTER know the RIGHT terms, or you won't get the right parts.
On the other hand, considering recent discussions I've seen on headspace and ogive, I don't hold much hope for clarity in the future, any more than there was in the past...
Operator? I was an operator for over 3 decades, none of my work ever involved a firearm.
what really torques my sense of dignity is "shotty" and "wheely".
decades ago, we could get away with a little tongue in cheek humor, smokepole, even calling semiauto military style .22LRs "assault rifles,, when we ALL knew they weren't, really. but today, no one seems to understand any humor about firearms, and all it does is come off sounding immature and childish.
And that reflects poorly on the image of being sensible and responsible.
I'm old (by my reconing, anyway) and would be a "low speed high drag operator" I suppose, but I'm comfortable with using terms that I've used my whole life, THE WAY I've used them my whole life, and don't really care much for having people younger than my own children redefine MY world without even asking.
Never realized until I saw it on the Internet that a 1911 had a "dustcover". Never any part like that in my Army manuals, just "frame" one each...
Tires/wheels motor/engine, and the "dreaded" clip/magazine, people mismatch and misuse these in common conversation all the time, but we get by, until you have to order parts, then you BETTER know the RIGHT terms, or you won't get the right parts.
On the other hand, considering recent discussions I've seen on headspace and ogive, I don't hold much hope for clarity in the future, any more than there was in the past...