Editing Bullpup (section)

==Etymology==
The origin of 
term "bullpup" for this configuration has long been unclear. In 1957, the word was reported to denote a target pistol, particularly one with a fancy stock.<ref name="DalzellVictor2014">{{cite book|last1=Dalzell|first1=Tom|last2=Victor|first2=Terry|title=The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h0mcBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA119|date=27 November 2014|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-62512-4|page=119}}</ref>

British firearm expert [[Jonathan Ferguson]] researched the origin of the term in 2019–2020. He found early references in 1930s firearm magazines implying that "bullpup" is derived from an [[analogy]] of such rifles to [[bulldog]] [[puppies]] (colloquially called "bullpups" in England during the late 19th and the early 20th century), which were considered "squat, ugly but still aggressive and powerful".<ref>{{Cite web|title=Origin of the Term "Bullpup" – with Jonathan Ferguson|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTWC_EzHMBw|url-status=live|website=YouTube|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200419120211/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTWC_EzHMBw |archive-date=19 April 2020 }}</ref> The original meaning of the word to describe dogs has since fallen out of use.