Bullets

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Originally Posted by 2post

I believe the projectile/ bullets question has been adequately answered so I’ll add this I have a firearms licence but I don’t have any firearms as I believe the police and the military have firearms. I have guns and rifles. I looked up firearms and it can been both but I’m sticking to my guns as they are not weapons.

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Gun is derived from the Old English word, "gonne" which means a military/war contraption. Indeed the earliest handheld firearm was the handgonne. Maybe the only safe place word left is "musket"? (-;

I reckon on some level we're aware of what words have been smeared by the press. 'Projectile' sounds less offensive than 'Bullet". Same as a rifle is a 'firearm', not a 'weapon'.

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Originally Posted by T.FOYE

I reckon on some level we're aware of what words have been smeared by the press. 'Projectile' sounds less offensive than 'Bullet". Same as a rifle is a 'firearm', not a 'weapon'.

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No real need for the press to smear them. Those things are devastating if used wrongly. Always point in a safe direction.

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Originally Posted by 10-Ring

Ha, hardly. I'm a 68 year old kiwi. Are you a German?

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Nein

But projectile is a nice generic term that covers slugs, pellets, buckshot, musket balls and a lot of other things as well as bullets. So...

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Originally Posted by dogmatix

Geez, you guys must be bored. ;)

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Ah but you read enough of this to come tho that conclusion!

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Originally Posted by 300CALMAN

Nein

But projectile is a nice generic term that covers slugs, pellets, buckshot, musket balls and a lot of other things as well as bullets. So...

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True.

I saw in the Saturday Herald that a double murderer used a 22 calibre shotgun sawn off I don't know if that uses bullets or pellets or projectiles. The only heads involved would be the ones shot.

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Originally Posted by johnd

I saw in the Saturday Herald that a double murderer used a 22 calibre shotgun sawn off I don't know if that uses bullets or pellets or projectiles. The only heads involved would be the ones shot.

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Was it also "high powered"?? That's always added because the media like saying it

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Originally Posted by johnd

I saw in the Saturday Herald that a double murderer used a 22 calibre shotgun sawn off I don't know if that uses bullets or pellets or projectiles. The only heads involved would be the ones shot.

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Did he use it as a club?

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Originally Posted by johnd

I saw in the Saturday Herald that a double murderer used a 22 calibre shotgun sawn off I don't know if that uses bullets or pellets or projectiles. The only heads involved would be the ones shot.

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Ah! The Herald, nuff said! As factual as Enid Blyton…