The term platform has been used in other technology fields and I guess it sort of migrated to the firearms industry. I suspect many of the engineers may have been exposed to the term in school and just continued to use it. For better or worse language evolves thus the need to update the dictionary ever few years.
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A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it ... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
- Milton Friedman
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