Firearms/Weapons...us and Them.

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Ok. I'm going to be controversial now.
What ever you say a firearm is a weapon.
A "weapon is something that is used to cause damage or injury to something or someone else"
Almost anything can be used as a weapon. A stick, a stone, a knife, a pistol, rifle, shotgun, a sword, a muddy puddle if you shove someone's face in it. A firearm is just a type of weapon.
When you shoot a deer, I am fairly certain you are trying to cause injury and death to it, ergo your firearm is a weapon.
 
shakey jake said:
but they were definatly made as weapons, seems a fairly grey area
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It's not a grey area at all. From the moment that the owner does to intend to kill people with them, they are rifles, firearms ir anything but a weapon. In precisely the same way as the bread knife, hammer etc in my house are not weapons but cutlery or tools.
It's very easy, a weapon is something somebody holds with a view to harming other people with it, whether it is a cluster bomb or a stick. A sporting firearm is not a weapon.
 
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BryanDC said:
Ok. I'm going to be controversial now.
What ever you say a firearm is a weapon.
A "weapon is something that is used to cause damage or injury to something or someone else"
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That is a silly and obviously incorrect definition.
Almost everything is a weapon and nothing a tool in that bizarre dystopia.
BryanDC said:
Almost anything can be used as a weapon. A stick, a stone, a knife, a pistol, rifle, shotgun, a sword, a muddy puddle if you shove someone's face in it. A firearm is just a type of weapon.
When you shoot a deer, I am fairly certain you are trying to cause injury and death to it, ergo your firearm is a weapon.
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Premise wrong, conclusion wrong.
 
BryanDC said:
Ok. I'm going to be controversial now.
What ever you say a firearm is a weapon.
A "weapon is something that is used to cause damage or injury to something or someone else"
Almost anything can be used as a weapon. A stick, a stone, a knife, a pistol, rifle, shotgun, a sword, a muddy puddle if you shove someone's face in it. A firearm is just a type of weapon.
When you shoot a deer, I am fairly certain you are trying to cause injury and death to it, ergo your firearm is a weapon.
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A weapon is anything that is used as a weapon, only the use and the user can define whether whatever it is you picked up is a “ weapon” and it ceases to be a weapon as soon as the user puts it down.
A firearm is only a weapon while it is being used as one, so is a rock, a hammer or a golf club.
This only applies to inanimate tools which may be used as weapons, teeth, talons and claws don’t count.
 
My mistake - I should have been more-specific:

Has anyone any rational thoughts as to what the 'arm' part of the word 'firearm' means?
;)
 
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dunwater said:
A weapon is anything that is used as a weapon, only the use and the user can define whether whatever it is you picked up is a “ weapon” and it ceases to be a weapon as soon as the user puts it down.
A firearm is only a weapon while it is being used as one, so is a rock, a hammer or a golf club.
This only applies to inanimate tools which may be used as weapons, teeth, talons and claws don’t count.
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Exactly.
 
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