Imagine walking into a sporting goods store and approaching a salesperson with this:
“Hello, I’d like to buy a ball for playing sports.”
After the inevitable strange look the salesperson would probably ask, “Which sport?”
“I don’t know, but I’d like to play a sport.”
This question is absurd because it is incomplete. A reasonable person would assume you should already know what sport you were interested in before buying equipment.
Except, if the sport is marksmanship. The very phrase “target shooting” is as nebulous as “sport ball.”
There were ten unique disciplines (fifteen total medal events for men and women) for shooting in the 2008 Olympics and various International organizations recognize many more. The NRA has a dozen separate disciplines officially recognized by Classification and there over a dozen other organizations formally recognizing other disciplines as well.
You want a firearm for “target shooting?” Which sport?
