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Old April 15, 2013, 10:21 AM   #7
Gaerek
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The term "tactical" is about as vague as the term "assault weapon." VERY generally speaking is usually means the weapon has been designed in a way that would make it suitable for use by special forces, SRT's or SWAT or something like that. Taken to the extreme, we have "tacticool" which means you're adding stuff to your gun just to make it look cool.

A really good example of tacticool is a threaded barrel on a handgun when you don't have a suppressor or comp on it. Some will try to argue that it gives better performance than a non-threaded barrel, but really they're just arguing that way because they're too embarrassed to admit they just like how it looks. Let's see, another good example is a quadrail on an AR with some kind of sight, light, laser, etc on most or all of the rails. Usually all of that is unneeded, but people think it looks cool.
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