GUNS AND THE NEWS

[OLDNAVYMCPO]

Newspaper and TV reporters must attend special training to learn to screw-up firearms reporting as badly as they do. There is no way IMO that they can possibly come by this trait naturally. We've all seen this countless times," the fully automatic revolver", "the 12 caliber assault shotgun", and the" 60 caliber machine-gun, M-60".

Today's El Paso Times had an Associated Press article by Emily Schmall on the biker gang shootout in Waco. In the article is the following bit of interesting technical theory. Don't know whether it's the reporter's fault or the ATF&E agent's blame, but I found it amusing. I still can't figure out what it has to do with the gunfight.

" Jennifer Cicolani, of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, noted that a semi-automatic gun can shoot more bullets in less time than a small-caliber weapon."

This single events has generated more misreporting and more LEO cluster activity than anything I've witnessed in recent time.

 

[the ringo kid]

I agree.Also,there have been no "real" reporters since Walter Cronkite left the air.

 

[federali]

Talking Heads

Don't forget all those bad guys shooting "high-caliber" weapons.

 

[Evil Dog]

the pleural of firearm is arsenal.

 

[the ringo kid]

Two boxes of ammo==Huge cache.

 

[federali]

How about that old standby: "cop-killer" bullets?"

 

[NYlakesider]

I have heard some doozies over the years but I especially like the talking head saying the cop fired his Glock duty revolver 15 times. I do not know about you guys but I would spend big money to have that gun in my safe.

 

[islamoradamark]

Two boxes of ammo==Huge cache.

thats some funny stuff but thats the truth people will believe anything and its scary that the people writing this stuff believe also

 

[wrhk33]

Don't forget the "High powered AK-47".

 

[Rustyt1953]

[ame]http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BRQqieimwLQ[/ame]

 

[Wyatt p. Tato]

I read that article, did you also note that it appears the police may have done all the shooting. It is sure taking quite awhile to determine the ballistics evidence. Is this another of ATF / justice department operations?

 

[qkarl]

Police guns shoot justice while criminal semi automatic machine guns shoot 12 gauge armor piercing caliber bullets.

 

[STCM(SW)]

"And they found hundreds of rounds of ammo!"(A brick of .22 LR)

 

[UncleEd]

Don't forget that the press often gets its descriptions of arsenals,
huge caches of ammo etc. from the official source: THE POLICE!

1. Don't expect the police to know all that much about firearms.

2. Don't expect the police not to color an arrest in the most favorable terms for themselves.

The reporters often reflect the official line because that's their source of the information. Or do you want the reporter to be interpretive and say the police chief is full of hooey without checking other informed sources such as the guys down at the LGS?

Yes, reporters get it wrong but so do the police and politicians.

And so do we on gun forums.

 

[zzclancy]

We had an elected state representative that didn't realize you could reload a magazine.

 

[da gimp]

Walter Cronkite was the idiot who when he heard Dan Rather's footsteps coming up behind him to replace him at CBS news, desperately needed a big story to fend off Rather......

Then the Tet Offensive happened in Nam........... every Viet Cong element was put into the battles across Viet Nam, and was utterly destroyed......The few North Viet Namese regiments sent into the fray took casualties in the 90% or worse range, the other side lost men in the 10's of thousands KIA.......... In contrast, US troops, & our allies, lost men in the hundreds KIA with more that were WIA............No other victory was so complete in US military history..... the great Mariannas Turkey Shoot came close.....but Tet was even a more decisive win than that.

To hell with Uncle Walter........... he was still replaced by Dan Rather.......... though CBS ran the story too......he was shoved aside............

Despite these clear facts......with every dead VC & NVA lined up in rows.....Uncle Walter got up on the news & proclaimed that the US had suffered a terrible defeat and that the war was lost....................He did this every day & night at every opportunity & the all of the media seized his lies & ran with his version.......

 

[Rustyt1953]

We had an elected state representative that didn't realize you could reload a magazine.

[ame]http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iJmFEv6BHM0[/ame]
This too.

 

[Rustyt1953]

We had an elected state representative that didn't realize you could reload a magazine.

[ame]http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rT7TOL_V08M[/ame]

 

[italiansport]

Walter Cronkite was a closet ultraliberal who went out of his way to conceal it. This was long before the mainstream news media became as openly politicized as it is today.
Jim

 

[Road Rat]

I agree.Also,there have been no "real" reporters since Walter Cronkite left the air.

Ain't it the truth!! We had a lot of reporters back in the day. They didn't always tell the whole truth but at least you could sit and listen to them while they reported what was going on in the world.

I commented just last week to my better half that the "reporters" today are made up of a group of giggling, blonds, who all look and talk the same (and at the same time - no manners) ...................can't stand them and they DON'T report anything!!! AAAARRRGG

I refuse to even try to get news on the TV....I'm guessing they work CHEAP..