Isn’t Stephen King the author everyone likes to razz because of poor firearms knowledge?
He is for me. The Dark Tower Series has not very many guns in it at all, and it's like he tried to screw up the designations.
In the second novel Roland, the hero, is trying to find ammo for his guns, which are SA revolvers. After crossing into a parallel reality and going into a gun shop, he finds what he needs. 45 Winchester...……………… Nope. 45 Win Mag was a semiauto cartridge and I can't find any reference to a 45 Winchester that differs. I suppose you could give him the benefit of the doubt and assume it was Winchester brand 45 Colt ammo. But I struggled with it.
In the same novel one of the supporting characters was noted as carrying a Ruger 44 automatic. What the hell is that? The only self loading 44 Ruger made was a 44 mag carbine as far as I can tell. I assume it was supposed to be a 45 auto.
Mistakes happen, but I don't understand how he screwed up two out of two gun references. Walking into a gun shop and asking a few questions would have helped avoid the foolish mistakes. What's doubly difficult is that those books have been revised from the originals, and the mistakes persist.
They are a great series of books otherwise though.
Edit: Whoops, you beat me to that one.
@MosinT53Hunter