plinker

Times have changed, he said, since his days as a "teen-age plinker."

In particular, the plinker is set at liberty from the very restrictive rules found at many gun ranges.

Gloria Lind calls herself a "plinker," someone who shoots .22-caliber pistols at paper targets and who "just has fun and feels relaxed doing it."

As stated above, my .22-caliber plinker would become, by the proposed definition of an assault rifle, an assault rifle through the addition of a large enough magazine.