This thread perfectly represents an interesting internet forum phenomenon I read about a couple of years ago.

Everyone posts as if they are down at the local bar having a conversation, yet everyone reads other posts as if they were reading a scientific journal.

So the poster in question imagines himself having a casual conversation with friends over a beer and saying "come on man, just look at it, it's a hammer and sickle!" He obviously doesn't mean that it is literally a hammer and sickle, but that it is designed to "recreate" the style of the hammer and sickle.

Side note: I don't think the authors had anything to do with the design, that is some graphic design firm that thought they came up with a clever design.

My current thought about guns is they are like lawyers. I need the good ones to fend off the bad ones.