Jerry Kiln
I look at the modern push to "Long Colt" as
Friday, October 02, 2026, 12:03

another example of modern mass media internet trendism, making all things fluid, where formerly a dictionary was definitive, but now even dictionaries and encyclopedias take their cues from what is the latest internet butchery of meaning or knowledge or spelling. "Long Colt" has taken off like wildfire with the internet, where formerly it mainly an isolated local thing, and now guns and maybe even brass so marked or at least ".45 LC". I expect in another few decades that people will need an AI assistant to read a newspaper article from 1965 where they will learn fascinating tidbits such as we were invading Vietnam in response to the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, to protect our supply of Nike shoes.