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The Thompson/Center Classic is shipped with a red flag that is attached to a plastic plug that inserts into the chamber.
Another word that is used frequently in many shooting publications is the word “tactical.” We read about tactical pistols, tactical flashlights, tactical knives, and tactical scopes. What sort of tactics? Squirrel hunting? Shooting groups to test accuracy? Shooting pop cans and pine cones? Tactical is the adjective form of the word “tactics” which my dictionary defines in one way as the science of maneuvering forces in combat. No wonder a nonshooter seeing a magazine that has listed the contents on the cover as articles on “tactical pistols” or “tactical knives” might think that the readers of such a magazine are (or want to be) members of some paramilitary group. There is nothing wrong with any of these “tactical” items, but they are not part of recreational or practice shooting unless the participant is training for tactics of a different sort.
Just as this is being written, the December 2004 issue of The American Rifleman arrived. It had a short story about an auction on eBay that had been pulled because the item being offered was believed to be related to assault weapons. It seems that the person whose item was for sale had used the descriptors “sniper” and “tactical” in reference to the item. It turned out that the item was a composite stock for a version of the popular bolt-action Remington Model 700 rifle that is sometimes referred to as a “tactical rifle.” Someone associated with eBay believed that somehow the stock was for an assault rifle and it seems that the policy is not to offer for sale on eBay anything that is associated with such firearms. Had the words tactical and sniper terms not appeared in the ad, the item would have been just as legitimate as the stock that I bought on eBay for my Ruger 77/17 that is described elsewhere in this book. In view of what took place in the Washington, DC area in the recent past, it is probably best to avoid the use of the word “sniper” in sport shooting circles. Image may not be everything, but it obviously important to those who are not knowledgeable about shooting sports.