Mr. Mark Dennehy:

I understand the Deputy's point about how people regard the words "weapon" and "firearm". I do not have a problem with this. I have trained several hundred people. When they come, they do not know anything about our sport and we do not turn around, slap them on the face and say, "Get out because you called it a weapon." It is our job to train them. If I am talking to my father as I did a few days ago in my kitchen and he uses the word "weapon," I do not haul him up on it. It is an informal chat. I do not have one of those lovely little light-up microphones in my kitchen and do not talk to the people who draft our laws in my kitchen. This is not an informal setting; rather, it is a formal one.