Birth Of An Inflammatory Gun Term -- ‘Law Enforcement-Style Shotgun’

From The Truth about Guns Blog:

But how the heck do you make a pump shotgun sound scary? A Remington 870? That’s grandpa’s shotgun. Dad had one, for God’s sake. That’s the gun even non-gun people have likely shot some clays with (and my, how fun that was!). That’s a tough one because people are generally quite comfortable and familiar with pump shotguns. It required coining a new term, setting a new standard for contrivance; the “law enforcement-style shotgun”.

It fits nicely with their other recent incendiary term, “military-style assault rifle” in that it adds special qualifiers up front suggesting that these firearms need to be associated with special status, specially trained individuals and are only to be used for their specially sanctioned purposes. But to preempt complaints about the inaccuracy of the term, they again add “-style” as an excuse. Exactly what is a “law-enforcement-style” shotty? Are the stocks black plastic instead of wood or camo? ”Law enforcement-style” is just the newest contrived term, again designed to garner support from the uneducated public to prepare the ground to take our shotguns away.

Just as I have been predicting. Soon your ole bolt action scoped hunting rifle will be renamed to a "military style sniper rifle," since you replaced the wood stock with a polymer one. Essentially the EBSR, Evil Black Sniper Rifle, since the EBR (Evil Black Rifle) is already part of the gun control lexicon.