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Re: Why are revolvers not pistols?
« Reply #25 on: May 17, 2011, 04:43:27 PM »
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Re: Why are revolvers not pistols?
« Reply #26 on: May 17, 2011, 04:49:20 PM »
Simply refer to single-hand-held firearms as handguns for general purposes, revolver and semi-auto for specifics.  Neatly sidesteps all the sematics nonsense.  Unfortunately, it would also probably kill about 90% of all internet discussion boards as they would have nothing to argue about.

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Re: Why are revolvers not pistols?
« Reply #27 on: May 17, 2011, 04:49:35 PM »
We kid, we kid  :laugh:
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Re: Why are revolvers not pistols?
« Reply #28 on: May 17, 2011, 05:08:39 PM »
Quote from: Brad Johnson on May 17, 2011, 04:49:20 PM
Simply refer to single-hand-held firearms as handguns for general purposes, revolver and semi-auto for specifics.  Neatly sidesteps all the sematics nonsense.  Unfortunately, it would also probably kill about 90% of all internet discussion boards as they would have nothing to argue about.

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Re: Why are revolvers not pistols?
« Reply #29 on: May 17, 2011, 08:45:04 PM »
Amateurs.

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Re: Why are revolvers not pistols?
« Reply #30 on: May 17, 2011, 08:45:42 PM »
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Re: Why are revolvers not pistols?
« Reply #31 on: May 17, 2011, 09:21:08 PM »
Quote from: AZRedhawk44 on May 17, 2011, 10:31:57 AM
Revolvers are pistols.

When they were invented and marketed, they were called "revolving pistols," in contrast to the muzzle loading single shot pistols that were dominant prior to that.

There are uninformed people out there with all sorts of misconceptions. 

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Correct.

Terminology gets fuzzed over time. Let's not forget that what today we call a "semi-automatic" or "self-loading" pistol was originally an "automatic." The "ACP" is .45 ACP, after all, is an acronym for Automatic Colt Pistol.
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Re: Why are revolvers not pistols?
« Reply #32 on: May 17, 2011, 09:43:18 PM »
Quote from: Matthew Carberry on May 17, 2011, 08:45:42 PM
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Heh. A whole song about revolvers, and he calls them pistols.
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Re: Why are revolvers not pistols?
« Reply #33 on: May 17, 2011, 10:37:53 PM »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeP220xx7Bs

....because the Sex Revolvers are something completely different....  :cool:
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Re: Why are revolvers not pistols?
« Reply #34 on: May 18, 2011, 03:29:56 AM »
Oklahoma actually makes a legal distinction as it applies to our CCW permits /Concealed weapon License.
Derringer, Revlover, Semi-auto. If you take the shooting portion of the course with a semi-auto it qualifies you to be able to carry all 3 types, otherwise you are restricted to the type you used in the course.
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Re: Why are revolvers not pistols?
« Reply #35 on: May 18, 2011, 03:31:00 AM »
Quote from: The artist formerly known as fistful on May 17, 2011, 09:43:18 PM
Heh. A whole song about revolvers, and he calls them pistols.

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Re: Why are revolvers not pistols?
« Reply #36 on: May 18, 2011, 10:25:26 AM »
My daddy was a pistol, I'm a son-of-a-gun!
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Re: Why are revolvers not pistols?
« Reply #37 on: May 18, 2011, 12:26:00 PM »
Quote from: RoadKingLarry on May 18, 2011, 03:29:56 AM
Derringer, Revlover, Semi-auto.

Are we talking firearms or motorsports?  =D

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Re: Why are revolvers not pistols?
« Reply #38 on: May 18, 2011, 02:23:58 PM »
Coming in on this late I guess.  I never noticed anyone defining revolvers as not covered under the term "pistol".  Maybe I just didn't notice.
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Re: Why are revolvers not pistols?
« Reply #39 on: May 18, 2011, 05:16:58 PM »
Revolvers are not pistols now for the same reason gay people aren't happy people now... Language changes. 
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Re: Why are revolvers not pistols?
« Reply #40 on: May 18, 2011, 05:29:21 PM »
Quote from: Hobie on May 18, 2011, 05:16:58 PM
Revolvers are not pistols now for the same reason gay people aren't happy people now... Language changes.  

But there is no consensus that revolvers are not pistols. Just a portion of the small fraction of Anglophones that know one gun from another.

I suppose this controversy may affect other languages too, but having seen no evidence of that, I see no reason to assume that it does. Maybe if there were some reasoning behind the revolver/pistol dichotomy, I could, but the whole point of this thread is that no reasoning has been shown.
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Re: Why are revolvers not pistols?
« Reply #41 on: May 18, 2011, 10:30:38 PM »
Reason has nothing to do with it.  It is all about popular usage.  That means that those who are rational are trying to communicate with those who aren't...   ;)
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Re: Why are revolvers not pistols?
« Reply #42 on: May 18, 2011, 10:38:27 PM »
Quote from: Hobie on May 18, 2011, 10:30:38 PM
Reason has nothing to do with it.  It is all about popular usage.  That means that those who are rational are trying to communicate with those who aren't...   ;)

What is the popular usage?

I disagree with your first sentence. Reason does have something to do with it.
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Re: Why are revolvers not pistols?
« Reply #43 on: May 18, 2011, 10:43:57 PM »
I wouldn't worry about it so much if I were you
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Re: Why are revolvers not pistols?
« Reply #44 on: May 18, 2011, 11:28:24 PM »
Aren't there some trash cans in the mall that need to be emptied?  Or a light bulb that needs changed ??

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Re: Why are revolvers not pistols?
« Reply #45 on: May 18, 2011, 11:30:42 PM »
My own personal peeve is "double-action only", which pretty much an oxymoron.
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Re: Why are revolvers not pistols?
« Reply #46 on: May 18, 2011, 11:45:17 PM »
Quote from: scout26 on May 18, 2011, 11:28:24 PM
Aren't there some trash cans in the mall that need to be emptied?  Or a light bulb that needs changed ??

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The trash cans are housekeeping's job.  :P  Hey, my employer wanted me to get a smart-phone to have at work. My conscience is clear.  =)


Quote from: zahc on May 18, 2011, 11:30:42 PM
My own personal peeve is "double-action only", which pretty much an oxymoron.

No, Col. Cooper, it is not. "Double-action" means that the trigger performs two actions. Which is exactly what a double-action-only does, and that's all it does.
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Re: Why are revolvers not pistols?
« Reply #47 on: May 19, 2011, 06:27:08 AM »
Quote from: zahc on May 18, 2011, 11:30:42 PM
My own personal peeve is "double-action only", which pretty much an oxymoron.

Mine is the fact that "double-action only" isn't defined more specifically....esp. in cases involving the newer poly-pistols....I mean, why is the Glock action defined as DAO and the Springfield XD action defined as SA?.....  =|
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Re: Why are revolvers not pistols?
« Reply #48 on: May 19, 2011, 11:33:08 AM »
Yeah, I have several of those Single Action Only revolving pistol thingies.
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Re: Why are revolvers not pistols?
« Reply #49 on: May 19, 2011, 11:53:30 AM »
Quote from: The artist formerly known as fistful on May 18, 2011, 11:45:17 PM
"Double-action" means that the trigger performs two actions. Which is exactly what a double-action-only does, and that's all it does.

(Summarized)  The only thing it does is two things.

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