No it's not funny or strange.
It's to differentiate them from simple hunting rifles. Which is funny cos a rifle can't hunt.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Wed 18 Feb 2015, 16:23,
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Or to differentiate them from befriend rifles
They're much nicer than the average Convenient Handheld Death Machine.
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smaggers Like a gibbon on helium, Wed 18 Feb 2015, 16:49,
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