A pestle-packin’ marshal hits town (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus)
Posted by GruntDoc on March 15th, 2009
A pestle-packin’ marshal hits town (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus)
He cracked drug crime, arrested armed villains and won a medal for valour. Every day he got tooled up with two .45 automatic revolvers and sometimes took along a pump-action shotgun.
It’s a good story, and I like it. Unfortunately it was written by someone who thinks a .45 automatic is a revolver. Aah, well.
Layers of editors and fact-checking.
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March 15th, 2009 at 10:16 am
To be honest in the UK I think you’d be doing extremely well to find an editor who even knew there might be a difference between a revolver, a pistol and a rifle. Guns just aren’t part of law-abiding life here.
March 15th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
.45 Automatic revolvers?
Hmm… must be a new model.
March 15th, 2009 at 8:34 pm
He had worked at the embassy in London. A Marine?
March 16th, 2009 at 10:49 pm
They actually make a revolver for 45 ACP, such a S&W 625. Very popular gun in competition due to being able to reload quickly, using moonclips. However, it does sound stupid as most .45s are semi autos.
March 17th, 2009 at 11:51 am
Well, some (all?) Gatling guns fired 45/70 rounds, and I think you could fairly call them “revolvers”, so “.45 automatic revolver” would seem to work for them. But it would be a bit difficult to “pack” two of them.
Although … maybe in the sense of “pack howitzers”? There was a Gatling model intended for use from camel-back; have you noticed a sudden paucity of camels in Fort Worth?
8-)
March 22nd, 2009 at 2:42 am
as a card carrying member of the much-hated MSM, I can say 95% of people in newsrooms HERE would only know the difference from movies. I had a reporter talk about a robber shooting bullets from a shotgun once. And she said it live on TV…. oooopppps