Imagination

(... AGAIN!?) If you want to call a pistol or an AK-47 a sniper rifle, fine, but if the gun's not rifled or would make long-range, concealed use difficult, like the AK's huge mags and lack of flash concealment, it really shouldn't be one, no matter how many scopes you slap on it, or who's behind it.

Um, the point of the sentence wasn't that a sniper picking up a gun made that gun a sniper rifle; the point was that a sniper rifle in the hands of a non-sniper couldn't be considered such.

No, I realize that. The part of my rant that covered that got cut off. Anyway, what I was getting to was that no matter how good your gun is at concealing you, if you lack the skills to conceal yourself, or if your gun is accurate but you can't shoot true, your gun is not a sniper rifle. I then went on to talk about what would constitute a sniper rifle, and if certain rifles can never be sniper rifles.