Comments on: Media Fail of the Day https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/media/media-fail-of-the-day/ Fri, 08 Nov 2024 20:13:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Sam I Am https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/media/media-fail-of-the-day/comment-page-1/#comment-11697 Fri, 08 Nov 2024 20:13:36 +0000 https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/?p=14792#comment-11697 In reply to Geoff “I’m getting too old for this shit” PR.

“Everybody knows it’s a fully semi-automatic firearm…”

Long live the chainsaw bayonet !

]]> By: Tim Toroian https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/media/media-fail-of-the-day/comment-page-1/#comment-11684 Fri, 08 Nov 2024 16:16:31 +0000 https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/?p=14792#comment-11684 Several years ago, Charles Karwan wrote an article about a Colt single-action that went full automatic. I copied the article, but neither the magazine name nor the year is in it. The problem with the gun was that the firing pin bushing had fallen out, so the brass was shoved back on ignition. It hit the firing pin hard enough to cock the gun. If the finger were still on the trigger, it would keep firing until the cylinder was emptied or the shooter let up on the trigger. I love to see what a “journalist” would do if they saw that.

]]> By: .40 cal Booger https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/media/media-fail-of-the-day/comment-page-1/#comment-11682 Fri, 08 Nov 2024 14:28:20 +0000 https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/?p=14792#comment-11682 The link to the article in this article, they changed it to read “NYPD: 20-year-old man found with semi-automatic firearm in Bronx train station” after getting called out on it.

]]> By: Geoff "I'm getting too old for this shit" PR https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/media/media-fail-of-the-day/comment-page-1/#comment-11661 Fri, 08 Nov 2024 02:43:31 +0000 https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/?p=14792#comment-11661 “The NYPD says they arrested a 20-year-old man after he was found with a loaded semi-automatic firearm…”

*Snort*.

Everybody knows it’s a fully semi-automatic firearm…

]]> By: LifeSavor https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/media/media-fail-of-the-day/comment-page-1/#comment-11653 Thu, 07 Nov 2024 23:42:23 +0000 https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/?p=14792#comment-11653 The problem is that firearm terminology is far too complex for the mainstream media ro understand. Detail beyond ‘handgun’, ‘rifle’, and ‘bullet’ can be impossibly difficult for a commercial journalist to sort out and report on correctly. Firearm names should be simplified. For example, the Glock 21 Gen 4 could be called ‘The Deathalizer’ while the Glock 19 could be ‘Killerator’ and the Glock 43 could me the ‘Mini-Killerator’.

Gun makers should adopt naming conventions that will capture the imagination of the mainstream journalidiots.

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