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seamusTX wrote:

UpTheIrons wrote:... doesn't that look like a shotgun

Yes, it's a shotgun. I'd say 12-gauge.

I took the word rifle from the story.

Jim,

Please don't think I was griping at you.I saw that you had just posted the story as it was reported. I was aiming my wrath (mild as it was) at those incompetent journalists who reported the story. When I saw this story the other day I immediately saw that it was a shotgun. It just frustrates me that so many reporters assume: long=rifle, black=evil, handgun=automatic, etc.

It was hard to see what it was unless you blew up the photo or saw the video where they flashed the pic for all of 3 seconds or so.

Maybe its my OCD tendencies here, but I can't really trust everything this news story says when they can't even get the type of firearm right.

Unless I need to clean my glasses, doesn't that look like a shotgun and not a rifle? Or does she have a 'silencer' on it?

I know that people who have no concept of guns outside of what they saw on "Law & Order" may have some trouble telling the difference between firearm types, but shouldn't/wouldn't a journalist make an attempt to get the story straight? Or am I all alone out here?

Here endeth the rant. Go in peace.