So Tam has a great post about anti-gun reporters who know nothing about guns.
Still the discussion section took a swing this way:
Commenter Reno Sepulveda notes that apparently Sen. Feinstein has latched on to the “Military & Police” moniker as well. Someone needs to let these grabasstic busybodies know that the label has been used by Smith & Wesson more or less continuously since 1899, making it an older trade label than “International Business Machines” (whose products, I will note, can somewhat misleadingly be used for non-commercial purposes and entirely within the boundaries of one nation.)
There are all sorts of gun names that can be misleading, or demonized by the anti-gun groups. “Military and Police” can be demonized as weapons not for the general public but for the “Only Ones”. “Tactical” is often around and equally misleading. S&W also has several guns labeled “Bodyguard”, and “Chief Special”. Or Colt’s “Commander”, “Combat Commander”, and “Officer”
Still I’d like to note that our opponents are bigots, not literalists.
A Mini-14 “Ranch Rifle”, a such-and-such “SPorter”, or the brand also extensively used by Smith and Wesson “PD” for “Personal Defense”, or the rarely used, but I always liked the guns bearing this badge “Lady Smith”.
Guns with mundane names will be just as demonized as mundane guns with “Tactical” names because the opposition simply hates guns and gun owners and will twist any phrase or term to attempt to sway people who know nothing of guns to side with them.
