How to talk about guns

[MacGyver]

From Slate.com this morning.  Click through if you absolutely must.  An article on using correct nomenclature to talk about guns stating, here are "All the words you need to know to talk about guns"  I love the corrections section, quoted below:

 

*Corrections, Dec. 18, 2012: This article originally stated that grips and mounts can modify the power of a semi-automatic gun (they modify the ease of use); that machine guns are mounted to a wall or rail (they often are, but not always); that a pistol is a firearm with a single, nonrevolving chamber (some pistols are, but not all); that no revolvers are semi-automatic (none are fully automatic); and that James Holmes bought his weapons on the Internet (he bought his ammunition on the Internet). The article also defined a rifle as a firearm with grooves on its barrel walls. Many other modern firearms, including handguns, have rifled barrels; more precisely, a rifle is a long-barreled gun with such grooves.

 

I kind of feel like I did when I was in college working as a ranger out west.  When one of our fellow rangers would get a "dear john" letter, we'd post it on the wall of the ranger office, and everyone who came through would edit it for grammer and spelling with a red pen.  After an appropriate amount of time for comment, we'd put it in an envelope and send it back.

 

Just to be clear, understand that this is what we're up against.

[UncleJak]

So what part did they get right? Seems like the whole thing was corrected.

[MacGyver]

Even their corrections need corrections.