I’m starting to think the misuse of terminology is just another way for them to help obfuscate the issue.
Rather than talking about how blatantly unConstututional their ex post facto law is, or how anyone attempting to enforce such a law should be strung up from the nearest lamppost as a warning to others...
We sit around quipping about nomenclature.
You may be right, but basically I think journalists are 'stuck on stupid' when it comes to firearms. They are totally clueless...............