Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 09:07:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: dicconf <dicconf at radix.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Spy plane crash?

On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Mike B. wrote:

> I don't recall if it was NPR or the local PBS station that did it, but I
> once heard a radio report about a new semi-automatic gun law and the report
> included the sound of machine guns firing in the background.

Then that wasn't a report, it was an editorial.

Similarly with many of the stories identifying autoloading pieces as
"assault rifles", and automatic pistols as "automatic weapons" -- as if
there was no difference between a Colt .45 and a machine gun.

-- Dick Eney

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