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Australian Olympic swimmers criticized for Facebook gun photo

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Ok, a number of thoughts....

1) WHERE did they find a gun store in California?
2) Ausies can't count -- they are holding FOUR guns, not three (Perhaps they aren't counting the revolver as 'high power'?)
3) Ausies speak weird -- "The lawyer of the man he punched was surprisingly surprised at D'Arcy's current brush with infamy." Surprisingly Surprised?? Learn that in Journalism Class?
4) Looks like they need some training in muzzle and trigger control.

High-powered.!!! That cracks me up.

What a namby-pamby article. Sounds like Mike Bloomberg wrote it himself.

If you read the comments section below that story, a LOT of people are slamming the "journalist" who wrote the piece...I guess he already has some notorious notoriety for poorly written, biased articles. And the comments are running FAR in favor of firearms.

OMG holding guns in a gun shop, what next? Holding beers at a bar?

Heartland Patriot wrote:notorious notoriety for poorly written, biased articles

Are they going to allow Michael Diamond and Russel Mark to travel to London this year? The both hold gold medals in shooting sports (trap) and are on the Australian SHOOTING team for the London olympics.

I hope they don't allow them to room with any of the swimmers, because OMG, the swimmers might touch a high powered shotgun!

To quote the great Sheila Jackson Lee:
You know the absurd becomes more absurd the more you hear it and that's absolutely absurd.

canvasbck wrote:Are they going to allow Michael Diamond and Russel Mark to travel to London this year? The both hold gold medals in shooting sports (trap) and are on the Australian SHOOTING team for the London olympics.

I hope they don't allow them to room with any of the swimmers, because OMG, the swimmers might touch a high powered shotgun!

To quote the great Sheila Jackson Lee:
You know the absurd becomes more absurd the more you hear it and that's absolutely absurd.

Did she also say "The future ain't what it used to be."?
or
" You can observe a lot by watching."?

(i.e. it sounds like a Yogiism)

Read this article this morning. From the comments on Yahoo it seems that the only people that think this is controversial are the journalist and the Aussie politcians.

RoyGBiv wrote:High-powered.!!! That cracks me up.

What a namby-pamby article. Sounds like Mike Bloomberg wrote it himself.

Almost any article written these days, even in Texas, describes any Glock (or pretty much any other carry gun) as "High Caliber." I still don't know what that means—beyond it being clear cut evidence of a drama queen reporter overly enamored with the sound and utterance of their own deluded vocabulary. Evidently, the writers have never heard of a .600 Nitro Express, or a .375 H&H Magnum, compared to which a 9mm or .45 ACP are pretty small potatoes.

Does anybody have a clear definition (outside of the gun-grabbing media) of what "High Caliber" means? If so, please enlighten me.

The Annoyed Man wrote:

RoyGBiv wrote:High-powered.!!! That cracks me up.

What a namby-pamby article. Sounds like Mike Bloomberg wrote it himself.

Almost any article written these days, even in Texas, describes any Glock (or pretty much any other carry gun) as "High Caliber." I still don't know what that means—beyond it being clear cut evidence of a drama queen reporter overly enamored with the sound and utterance of their own deluded vocabulary. Evidently, the writers have never heard of a .600 Nitro Express, or a .375 H&H Magnum, compared to which a 9mm or .45 ACP are pretty small potatoes.

Does anybody have a clear definition (outside of the gun-grabbing media) of what "High Caliber" means? If so, please enlighten me.

TAM -- you DO realize the phrase was "high powered", not "high caliber", right?

sjfcontrol wrote:

The Annoyed Man wrote:

RoyGBiv wrote:High-powered.!!! That cracks me up.

What a namby-pamby article. Sounds like Mike Bloomberg wrote it himself.

Almost any article written these days, even in Texas, describes any Glock (or pretty much any other carry gun) as "High Caliber." I still don't know what that means—beyond it being clear cut evidence of a drama queen reporter overly enamored with the sound and utterance of their own deluded vocabulary. Evidently, the writers have never heard of a .600 Nitro Express, or a .375 H&H Magnum, compared to which a 9mm or .45 ACP are pretty small potatoes.

Does anybody have a clear definition (outside of the gun-grabbing media) of what "High Caliber" means? If so, please enlighten me.

TAM -- you DO realize the phrase was "high powered", not "high caliber", right?

Let me be clear, I was not talking about the article in the OP. I was talking specifically about the loosely used term "High Caliber" which, if you google it, appears in hundreds of articles involving guns in popular news media without explanation other than we're supposed to know that it means something amorphously dangerous.

That said, 'high powered' is equally misused. Reporters will call an AR15 a "high-powered assault rifle." Those of us in the gun-world will typically attack the use of the term "assault rifle" because it is factually an incorrect term. BUT, we'll let the term 'high-powered' with regard to the .223/5.56 cartridge slip right on by. But as anyone knows who has fired a variety of rifles, 'high-powered' is a very relative term, and the .223/5.56 cartridge is at the lower end—indeed, near the bottom—of the rifle cartridge power spectrum. A reporter who calles an AR15 a 'high-powered' rifle, is a reporter who has never even seen a rifle cartridge in .270 or .308, let alone .30-'06, which is where the descriptive "high-power" actually begins to be true.

It is nothing more than the dramatization of the mundane in order to gin up outrage. It isn't enough to shock. A reporter needs to manufacture outrage, because that outrage turns what would be a one time article into an 'investigative series', which in turn sells more papers or page hits, etc., etc.

I'm going to the High Caliber Gun Show in a few weeks, I'll ask the staff there.

No comment.

High-Caliber, High-Power, Hi-Caliber and Hi-Power are so mis-used in reporting that I wonder if anyone has a handle on what these terms do, or should, mean. Fairly typical usage by reporters seems to be that anything other than a .22 (and I know that .22 is a caliber, not cartridge, designation) -- presumably rimfire -- is considered one or any of these.