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# why is a rifle not a gun then?

(I helped save b3ta! grey matter, Mon 27 Feb 2006, 15:17, archived)
# Why is cheddar not Edam?
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# Do you not mean
Why is edam not cheese?

Surely a rifle is a gun with a rifled barrel.
(I helped save b3ta! Afinkawan Yes I can hear you Clem Fandango, Mon 27 Feb 2006, 15:35, archived)
# No
A rifle is a firearm with a rifled barrel.

A gun is an Artillery piece - cannot be fired on the move and is 'way cooler' than a rifle on the Lord Manley of Ven blowing shit up scale.
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