4 ms·

Not sure i get involved but here goes. So apparently it is officially called pistol, yet most seems to represent a revolver, and the guy insists on calling it

• spraak 9y ago
  "Why do you insist on calling this square a rectangle?"
• deleted 9y ago
  [deleted]
• csours 9y ago
  Actually in military use, 'gun' generally refers to larger crew-served weapons, like artillery. The word 'small arms' is used to describe rifles and hand guns. 'Gun' can also refer to anything from a phaser to a portal gun to a zero point energy manipulation device!
• kyle-rb 9y ago
  There is no other gun emoji, afaik, so in this case I think gun is unambiguous.
  • toomanybeersies 9y ago
    There was a proposal to add a hunting rifle emoji, but apparently due to the trauma of gun violence or something, they decided to remove it from the spec. Here's an article on its removal: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36576492 http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36576492
• coldtea 9y ago
  That's because most people will call these things guns ("the suspect had a gun") -- unless it's something obviously special and/or well known (e.g. an Uzi), and sometimes not even then, they don't delve in the minutiae of whether it's pistol, revolver or whatever. Non native english speakers (e.g. 90% of the internet) even more so.
  • Bromskloss 9y ago
    > "the suspect had a gun" Or do you mean "perpetrator"? ;-)
    • coldtea 9y ago
      With everybody having a gun in the US, you can't really tell :-)