Hey, ask any squirrel around if it thinks a rifle in my hands is not a weapon!!!!!! If you can speak 'squirrel', I bet it's answer would be "heck friggin' right it's a weapon. He got my brother, two sisters, and a few distant cousins in our woods last weekend"!!! LOL's. Now a brief definition of "BB-Guns". From what I have experienced/shared with my fellow AG enthusiast, is that many of our "non 'air-acctuated' shooting" friends think of BB/pellet shooters as little Red-Ryders and old crosman pumpers from their years of youth,....what they don't understand is the discipline and understanding of the whole AG array of weaponry and just how accurate and powerful these weapons can be in close,...and far in some cases, the proximity (?!? sp). "Those are kids guns" for a better analogy. When we say "BB-Guns", it's a sarcastic way of mimicing our mis-guided and unknowledgable friends. Kind of an inside joke among us. One thing that gets me irked is when folks call air-rifles 'pellet guns'. While they may be correct in that it shoots pellets and/or BB's, my 'guns' are all rifled, therefore I call them 'air rifles'. Unless I'm speaking of the whole sport in general I will refer to them as air-guns (AG's), but when the topic is of rifles, I always refer to them as air rifles (AR's). If my rifles were 'rifleless', I would call them Air guns,....like in as a shot-gun,...smoothed bored and rifleing free. One day I might get myself one of those Gamo shot/pellet "Viper" guns! HeHeHe, tjk
