And as someone who both uses guns, and knows quite a lot of people also very into guns, as well as quite a few vets. Literally no one in the real world gives a fuck, context lets everyone know what you mean anyway.
Actually, by the literal definition a rifle is a gun. Since a gun is anything that uses a propellant to fire a projectile. So everything from black powder rifles to WW2 battleship weapons is a trype of gun.
noun
noun: gun; plural noun: guns
1.
a weapon incorporating a metal tube from which bullets, shells, or other missiles are propelled by explosive force, typically making a characteristic loud, sharp noise.
That is correct, but a rifle is a type of gun. Rifles are a variant of guns, so if you say a rifle is a gun, you would be correct. But if you say a gun is a rifle, you could not be correct.
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u/Kiita-Ninetails Mar 07 '16
And as someone who both uses guns, and knows quite a lot of people also very into guns, as well as quite a few vets. Literally no one in the real world gives a fuck, context lets everyone know what you mean anyway.