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If you've studied this matter extensively I'll concede the point but for what it's worth I hear people (mostly those unfamiliar with guns) refer to a cartridge
by dmm 16y ago
If you've studied this matter extensively I'll concede the point but for what it's worth I hear people (mostly those unfamiliar with guns) refer to a cartridge as a bullet regularly.
> While nobody usually uses "cartridge"
The must be hyperbole. I have heard people use the word cartridge and I have used it before. Do you have any basis for that statement?
- vl 16y agoJust what I hear, people usually say something like this: "I just bought 300 rounds of 9mm for really good price at Walmart".
- ceejayoz 16y agoI suspect people who tend to buy 300 rounds of ammunition at Walmart know more than average about gun terminology. Most of the population's knowledge comes from 24 and TV news reporters.
- micheljansen 16y agoYeah, but there you are only considering the limited subset of the population that actually owns a gun and buys rounds for it. Although the author of the post is American and I am not, which makes the likelihood of him knowing the difference bigger, I am pretty sure most of the people I know have no idea what the difference is between a bullet and a cartridge (fortunately there is Wikipedia).