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.
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.
.45 Automatic revolvers?
Hmm… must be a new model.
He had worked at the embassy in London. A Marine?
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.
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-)
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