Thread: Bullets

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.

So you have a rifle and gun licence? Sounds good. The police and military have weapons which they don't need a licence for. The big brother miltaries even have weapons of mass destruction which they also don't need a licence to own. It's a mixed up world; enough to keep a man awake at night trying figure it out.

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.

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"? (-;

Sleep well tonight mate! I’m off to bed shortly… I shall lie there thinking about electric vehicles, climate change, angry men, bullet heads, Covid stats, water authorities, seeding trees and Cowboy’s nice dog. I am sure my subconscious powers will find a connection that ties them altogether. Then I will wake up.

What keeps me awake at night is my wife’s snoring.

Originally Posted by 10-Ring

Can anyone explain the kiwi obsession with calling bullets 'projectiles' exclusively? You never see bullets for sale in NZ it's always marketed as 'projectiles'.

Sure, bullets are projectiles but so are artillery shells and cannon balls. More losely defined a projectile is any object hurtled through the atmosphere. A bullet can only be one thing and that's a bullet. The non shooting public call cartridges 'bullets' because they don't know any better. That's to be expected.

I've never seen or bought a box of bullets with 'projectile' written on it.

It's 3:30 a.m. and I can't get to sleep and I've been trying to figure this out.

Are you a pom?

Originally Posted by 300CALMAN

Are you a pom?

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

Originally Posted by 10-Ring

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

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...

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...

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.

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.

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

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.

Did he use it as a club?

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.

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

Originally Posted by caberslash

Farrrkkk... didn't think we would get into semantics on this forum!

Unfortunately don't have the authority to speak for "the English", despite being born there (the West Midlands... the horror... the horror...) and I currently reside on the right (Northern) side of the border.

Out of the 4 languages I speak, English is the second most spoken language on Earth, and probably high up on the list of how many borrowed words they are.

I find this ironic, what with Brexit, England losing in the Euro's etc. A lot of 'English Nationalist' idiots are waving the
St. Geroge's cross around. Well, St.G was Greek, and so are most of the younger members of the Royal Family through Philip.

Where were we again? Heads? Always better than tails!

“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.”
― James D. Nicoll

Geez, you guys must be bored.

Originally Posted by dogmatix

Geez, you guys must be bored.

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

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'.