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What's the Best Pistol Gauge?
« on: October 27, 2016, 08:59:11 AM »
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Re: What's the Best Pistol Gauge?
« Reply #1 on: October 27, 2016, 09:04:15 AM »
Hmmm...

The most produced handgun type is the revolver, at 792,834 produced annually. But  the 9mm "gauge" handgun has 1,472,528 manufactured yearly.

Why isn't the 9mm the most produced handgun rather than the revolver? I guess either "produced" doesn't mean the same as "manufactured," or "annually" doesn't mean the same as "yearly."



Or ... it's the new math again.
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Re: What's the Best Pistol Gauge?
« Reply #2 on: October 27, 2016, 09:08:31 AM »
I think they meant most popular brand of revolver. Even if that's the case, I have to question their choice for that as well.

Fox Business actually seems to be pretty pro gun. I just wish they would do better research.
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Re: What's the Best Pistol Gauge?
« Reply #3 on: October 27, 2016, 09:26:10 AM »
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Re: What's the Best Pistol Gauge?
« Reply #4 on: October 27, 2016, 09:28:27 AM »
I like the 20 gauge pistol.
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Re: What's the Best Pistol Gauge?
« Reply #5 on: October 27, 2016, 09:41:50 AM »
Personally, I am a big fan of the .9mm.   :laugh:
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Re: What's the Best Pistol Gauge?
« Reply #6 on: October 27, 2016, 09:52:44 AM »
I vote for 88 Magnum.
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Re: What's the Best Pistol Gauge?
« Reply #7 on: October 27, 2016, 10:15:50 AM »
We may all just need to accept that online journalism includes clickbait, just as print journalism includes ads for denture cream. There will still be real journalism, but buried among lots of listicles that generate revenue. And, of course, partisan hackery. But there has always been partisan hackery.
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Re: What's the Best Pistol Gauge?
« Reply #8 on: October 27, 2016, 11:20:17 AM »
I'm seeing more and more examples of the over- and improper use of online thesauri and dictionary entries, as well as spellcheckers.

My online TV listing gives a little précis of each program which is rife with examples of misuse of words with the same "poor online research" flavor.

The writer probably thesaurized "caliber" and one of the entries was "gauge," so he used that and patted himself on the back for his sophisticated use of gun lingo.

It's getting to the point where I would expect to hear or see screws and wire sizes referred to as .22-caliber wire and 1/4 - 20 gauge screws.

This, although I reckon 6-32 screws might properly be called a "gauge."

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Re: What's the Best Pistol Gauge?
« Reply #9 on: October 27, 2016, 11:41:50 AM »
It might be something farmed out to overseas writers who only speak Engrish not English.  Or some sort of computer translation.
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Re: What's the Best Pistol Gauge?
« Reply #10 on: October 27, 2016, 11:59:46 AM »
It might be something farmed out to overseas writers who only speak Engrish not English.  Or some sort of computer translation.

That's what I was thinking, some of this stuff is probably scripted bot-written content. I believe some of Google's news feeds and Facebook's are now automated in this way.
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Re: What's the Best Pistol Gauge?
« Reply #11 on: October 27, 2016, 12:37:39 PM »
* One of the spelling hints I got from a grade school teacher was that "gauge" is spelled in the order of the vowels, as in "a, e, i, o, u," not as "guage." I often end up referring to that in my head when writing about shotguns.

Sho 'nuff -- it works for "shotgun," too. a, e, i, o, u
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Re: What's the Best Pistol Gauge?
« Reply #12 on: October 27, 2016, 01:23:08 PM »
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Re: What's the Best Pistol Gauge?
« Reply #13 on: October 27, 2016, 01:25:27 PM »
I vote for 88 Magnum.

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Re: What's the Best Pistol Gauge?
« Reply #14 on: October 27, 2016, 01:30:43 PM »



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According to the The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives the number one manufactured firearm is the rifle, with 3,582,163 produced each year. Second best? Revolvers at 792,834 produced annually.   

Does that include semi-auto revolvers or just revolver revolvers?
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Re: What's the Best Pistol Gauge?
« Reply #15 on: October 27, 2016, 01:30:52 PM »
It might be something farmed out to overseas writers who only speak Engrish not English.  Or some sort of computer translation.

I can't help but be reminded of the (probably apocryphal) story of when they were first testing the computerized Russian-English translator.

The test was to input something in English, translate it to Russian, then have it translated back into English to check it.

So when they input "The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak," it came back as "The vodka is good but the steak is bad."

I actually used this technique once when I had to write a long letter to someone in Mexico who had no English.  Input to Google-to-Spanish, then back to English, made some corrections, then repeated that in-out-correct-in-out process several times.

The final Spanish product came out very good, according to the answer I got back from him.  Or at least according to the translation of his answer.

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Re: What's the Best Pistol Gauge?
« Reply #16 on: October 27, 2016, 04:05:08 PM »
Personally, I am a big fan of the .9mm.   :laugh:

I am reminded of an old Law & Order episode in which the police were looking for a "25mm pistol".


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Re: What's the Best Pistol Gauge?
« Reply #17 on: October 27, 2016, 04:18:54 PM »
I am reminded of an old Law & Order episode in which the police were looking for a "25mm pistol".


("and the flatbed used to haul it?"  I wondered)

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Re: What's the Best Pistol Gauge?
« Reply #18 on: October 27, 2016, 05:26:03 PM »
All this talk about guns is making me thirsty.

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Re: What's the Best Pistol Gauge?
« Reply #19 on: October 27, 2016, 05:35:36 PM »
I am reminded of an old Law & Order episode in which the police were looking for a "25mm pistol".


("and the flatbed used to haul it?"  I wondered)


???

25mm is basically one inch. That would be a large-ish handgun, but certainly not flatbed truck large.
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Re: What's the Best Pistol Gauge?
« Reply #20 on: October 27, 2016, 05:40:18 PM »
44mm Magnum double-barrel automatic assault howitzer.

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Re: What's the Best Pistol Gauge?
« Reply #21 on: October 27, 2016, 05:49:31 PM »
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Re: What's the Best Pistol Gauge?
« Reply #22 on: October 27, 2016, 05:51:21 PM »
???

25mm is basically one inch. That would be a large-ish handgun, but certainly not flatbed truck large.

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Re: What's the Best Pistol Gauge?
« Reply #23 on: October 27, 2016, 05:56:53 PM »
25mm is basically one inch.

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