You have to consider the device in it's construction intent.
I don't see why, but even if we accept the premise at face value, you still end up having to answer sticky questions about guns that were designed from the ground up to win competitons.
A gun was designed to kill
You keep saying it, but that doesn't make it true. A benchrest rifle, for instance, is designed, built, intended, whatever, SOLELY to be laid on a bench and fired at tiny paper targets. There is absolutely
nothing martial about it.
Guns were around long before shooting became an olympic sport.
Guns were apparently around before anyone thought to point them at people. The Chinese developed the principle of ramming a charge of gunpowder (which they invented) into a tube and placing a projectile on top of it, to be fired into the air as a firework. If I wanted to be completely silly, I'd argue that that means it's wrong to call a gun a "weapon".
and fwiw, all my shooting is target shooting.
So you're misusing your "weapon"?
