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Austin_AD t1_iuonyum wrote

what's with calling Rifles "Long gun"?

Seems like a new trend.

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BuddyBroDudeMan t1_iuos2ne wrote

Long gun has been used to describe guns that are long since guns have been long.

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LogicallyMad t1_iuoqvpl wrote

I’ve heard “long gun” as a term for a while, nothing new, you can probably find the phrase in some older articles.

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Austin_AD t1_iuow3tm wrote

It's not that I haven't heard the term before, but it's on the level of 'musket' to me.

In descending order:
Assault Rife

Rife

Long Gun

Musket

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Chrononah t1_iup4vvi wrote

Classifications. If you ever look at a 4473 which is a background check there are three weapon categories, Long Gun (any rifle over 16 inches on barrel length essentially, shotguns, and such) Handgun (pistols, revolvers, AR pistols, Dracos, anything under 16 inches with a fixed brace) and other (items that are technically guns, most often used to refer to lowers and receivers) so legally speaking the gun was a Long Gun

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Eat-My-Cloaca t1_iuosspl wrote

Growing up with guns there were 3 types

Handguns, shotguns, and long guns. It’s a nice catch all for any type of rifle (though honestly the modern AR/AK would’ve been completely out of the realm of consideration with my family growing up. Long gun is a deer rifle as far as we were concerned because that was the only rifle people could have)

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Austin_AD t1_iuoupkz wrote

Called Rifles here in Texas and its what we called them in the Infantry too.

Pistol, Rifle, Shotgun.

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Eat-My-Cloaca t1_iuoysvt wrote

I was raised in the mid atlantic, maybe it’s regional or just a family thing? I do appreciate the news using the term when they’re unsure of the weapon outside of “it’s a gun but not a pistol”

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Aquanauticul t1_iup7rk7 wrote

I think long gun has specific weapons laws connotations in NJ gun laws. Haven't read through the state police docs in a hot minute

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3klipse t1_iuq9ha6 wrote

Was it a rifle? Or was it a shotgun, which is also a long gun.

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Re-AnImAt0r t1_iuqm9hh wrote

cops were shot, right? Did they have bullets inside of them expelled from cartridges or were they full of buckshot or have a huge hole blown through them by a deer slug expelled from a shell? It's not like the ammo is interchangeable between the two.....

If you know what ammo someone is shot with you know what type of weapon they were shot with.

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tayroarsmash t1_iur58oi wrote

If it’s a slug they may not know immediately. It could have passed through them the wounds would be difficult to tell from a high caliber rifle.

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