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::::: One thing that I should try to impress upon you is my point of view that motivates me to steer this article away from labeling "sniper rifles" as a unique class of rifle. Firstly, gun control advocates will read this, and they want to know what types for rifles to try to ban. Since I stand by my assertion that nearly all sniper rifles are merely ordinary rifles that are being used for the task of sniping, differentiating is impossible. If a law is passed somewhere that says sniper rifles are illegal, does that mean M40A3's are illegal, or does it mean that any rifle that has camouflage paint on it is illegal?
::::::Wikipedia should not be "steered" by such concerns, which are only relevent to one country and entirely inappropriate to Wikipedia which is an encyclopedia not a battleground for pro- and anti-gun advocates from one country. If differentiating sniper rifles from other rifles are impossible why then do we have a wiki article of this title and a category that many users have deemed it appropriate to classify more than 50 rifles as; [[Category:Sniper rifles]]. The simpe fact is that many rifles are built with only one thing in mind and cannot be used for anything else and they can only be called sniper rifles, not hunting rifles not assault rifles. [[User:Deon Steyn|Deon Steyn]] 07:41, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
::::: I think you're probably right about getting rid most details about components and construction. However, it may be necessary to discuss it only as far as is necessary to point out that sniper rifles are not really much different from ordinary rifles, and in fact, in cases of accuracy, they may be intentionally designed to be less accurate than their components and technology would otherwise allow them to be.
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