Gun-banner ignorance is a source of endless amusement for us - or rather, it would be were not the stakes so high. They consistently make the most ludicrous errors that are obvious to those of us who know something about firearms. We all know that they confuse machine guns with semi-automatics, refer to magazines as "bullet stocks," confuse and conflate assault rifles and "assault weapons," and generally make it up as they go along.
Doing a bit of research I found yet another howler, this time from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. On 5/21/03 the newspaper published an editorial calling for renewing and expanding the AWB. Assault weapons belong off the street, under a ban
The newspaper informs us that "Adolf Hitler was so delighted with the lethal capability of the new gun presented to him by his ordnance designers during World War II that he dubbed it the 'Sterm Kever' -- or assault rifle." First, Hitler didn't even name the rifle - the inventors of the StG44 gave it its name. Second, the German word is "das Sturmgewehr." Whatever dumbass wrote that editorial for the AJC heard the word and didn't even bother to find out how it is spelled.
"Sterm Kever."
Doing a bit of research I found yet another howler, this time from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. On 5/21/03 the newspaper published an editorial calling for renewing and expanding the AWB. Assault weapons belong off the street, under a ban
The newspaper informs us that "Adolf Hitler was so delighted with the lethal capability of the new gun presented to him by his ordnance designers during World War II that he dubbed it the 'Sterm Kever' -- or assault rifle." First, Hitler didn't even name the rifle - the inventors of the StG44 gave it its name. Second, the German word is "das Sturmgewehr." Whatever dumbass wrote that editorial for the AJC heard the word and didn't even bother to find out how it is spelled.
"Sterm Kever."