Shooting a 357 Magnum pistol- for the first time!

[GordonIngram]

A revolver isn't a pistol.

[aivilik]

@GordonIngram Wrong. A revolver IS a pistol, just as a semi-auto is a pistol. Read history, wiseguy. You must be young.

[GordonIngram]

@aivilik:

Definition of PISTOL: a handgun whose chamber is integral with the barrel.

[aivilik]

I don't know where you got your definition from, but it's apparently a rather new one. Read back through history...you find the word pistol being used long before semi-automatic firearms even existed. If you're so convinced that you're right and I'm wrong, I don't really care, because as far as I'm concerned, you have an issue not with me, but with history. I guess you'll have to rewrite history using your 'definition' of what a pistol is.

[aivilik]

I guarantee you that the word pistol was being used 200 years ago. No one was calling it a 'revolver'. I happen to work with an idiot that calls revolvers 'wheel' guns...because (and get this) he says the cylinder turns like a wheel. Brilliant guy, I admit, but it just goes to show you that people will sometimes come up with things because they think they understand things better than their contemporaries or their predecessors, but just because someone thinks that doesn't make it so. 

[aivilik]

From wordnet.princeton.edu...

(n) pistol, handgun, side arm, shooting iron (a firearm that is held and fired with one hand)

From NRA-ILA...

PISTOL

Synonymous with "handgun." A gun that is generally held in one hand. It may be of the single-shot, multi-barrel, repeating or semi-automatic variety and includes revolvers.

That last one is from the NRA themselves. Why don't you take up your argument with them?

[aivilik]

From NRA-ILA (National Rifle Association-Institute for Legislative Action):

AUTOMATIC

A firearm designed to feed cartridges, fire them, eject their empty cases and repeat this cycle as long as the trigger is depressed and cartridges remain in the feed system. Examples: machine guns, submachine guns, selective-fire rifles, including true assault rifles.

[aivilik]

From NRA-ILA:

AUTOMATIC PISTOL

A term used often to describe what is actually a semi-automatic pistol. It is, technically, a misnomer but a near-century of use has legitimized it, and its use confuses only the novice.

[elitesack]

awesome. hold on to that piece, hard to find a better one that doesnt cost a few thousand dollars :D

[FuriousPixel]

cool son