No, guns aren’t exclusively designed to kill.
I stop reading after that ridiculous statement.
I stop reading after that ridiculous statement.
Um...
I know you can shoot targets with them, but that doesn't seem like the principal use.
What else do you think a gun is designed to do, beyond killing things?
The guns the biathletes use in the Winter Olympics aren’t “meant to kill”.
They have the same essential design as most low-caliber rifles that are explicitly designed for hunting - i.e., designed for killing.
That design came from centuries of seeking more efficient, efficacious ways to kill with guns.
Sure, they're tweaked to be optimal for very formalized, competitive shooting, not military combat, but they'd still serve very well for executions, sniping, and the like.
See also biathlon's roots in military training: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biathlon#History
That is their entire purpose.