Comment on "ok, imagine a gun."

• SGforce@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Cloueuse pneumatique

  Or pneumatic nailer

  I don’t think any of those things are referred to as a gun in French. Just essentially “stapler”, “nailer”, “gluer”, ect

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  • JohnAnthony@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I might be biased by the question but I spontaneously thought of “pistolet à clous” as the most common term (which indeed translates to nail gun)

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• Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Amazon and their copycats seem to be calling them ‘nailers’, probably because it’s easier to filter out the constructive guns from destructive, prohibited ones. But Amazon is evil so it’s probably unrelated

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  • JustinTheGM@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    To be fair on this one, based on actual functionality ‘air nailer’ or ‘power hammer’ is more accurate than ‘nail gun’’ anyway. Outside of movies, you can’t use it as a gun without enough modification that it’s no longer the same tool.

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    • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Tell that to my .22 Ramset.

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      • JustinTheGM@ttrpg.network ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Ramsets use .22 blanks, not bullets, and would have the same issues being used as a pistol at range as any other powered hammer. Even if you override the safety, and either modify or practice with it enough to be reasonably accurate, you’re just not going to do much damage if you’re more than an arm’s length or two away.

        Nails have terrible ballistic performance, and there’s nothing in a nailer meant to keep the nail going straight for more than 10cm or so. A nail launched into air (rather than a hard surface) from a nailer would start to tumble almost immediately.

        You’d literally be more effective throwing the nailer at an attacker than trying to shoot them with it.

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    • WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I like <method of creating force> + hammer above nail gun but to your second point. Nail guns can be deadly without modification. Just close up work. They sell these and others like them at big box stores. This would be, in my favored naming convention, a gunpowder hammer.

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