Here's THE explanation of what I wrote, and I know since I wrote it.
Note the quotation marks I put around more gun when I responded to Savage_99's post. He was referring to using more gun relative to the topic cartridge of this thread, the 257 Roberts. When I quoted his words, their meaning in my post is then the same as their meaning in his: more gun relative to the 257 Roberts.
Putting the pieces together, my question
Why use "more gun" when it simply isn't necessary?
means exactly the same thing as
Why use more gun than the 257 Roberts when it simply isn't necessary?
To be excruciatingly explicit, context and the use of "" turns more gun into more gun than the 257 Roberts.
