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Originally Posted by Paul
No it isnt.
misquote
* a passage or remark quoted inaccurately.
* quote (a person or a piece of written or spoken text) inaccurately.
The bit I quoted was accurate.
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Yes it is.
If you quote part of a sentence so as to change the overall sense of the sentence, you have quoted inaccurately, as per that definition. The part of the sentence that you didn’t quote - the part that connects gun ownership to regulated militia and territorial defence - is important.