Board Thread:Questions and answers/@comment-33831799-20190202144917/@comment-26431461-20190202162700

Can you give me an example?

If you're talking about things like the Recon shoulder stock, the "shoulder stock" part is lower case because its name is conjecture ("Recon shoulder stock" is not the official name of the stock. We just called it that because it comes with the Recon. If we knew about an official name for it, we would call it whatever it was, and it would be in capital letters).

On the other hand, something like Storage Stock is fully capitalized because we know for a fact that it's the official name of the attachment.

Here's an exception: the Mediator Stock, despite sounding conjecture, is actually the official name of the attachment (the packaging refers to the stock as the "Mediator Stock".) Since it's an official name for the stock, everything is capitalized.

Here's an example in real life. If we were talking about Elliott's hacksaw, we would call it "Elliott's hacksaw". But if Elliott had another name for it, like "Big Tool O' Blaster Multilation" we can also call it that (or whatever he actually calls it), in all caps.

That's my understanding of why they aren't capitalized. Maybe the admins can correct me.

However, there is some inconsistency when it comes to this rule (e.g Banana clip is the official name for the magazine, but we don't capitalize "clip". Again someone can correct me on this, but I think it should be capitalized. Or maybe not.)