So? FN Now Makes a 28mm Handgun Now ..... yeah right

[HisStigness]

By writing and publishing a news article, the author is basically declaring himself/herself an expert on the topic that they are reporting. If you are an expert on the news story, you should know what the heck you're talking about! They had not 1, not 2, not 3, but 4 authors that wrote this article, and not one of them could be bothered to consult wikipedia and learn a little bit about the gun in question?

It also annoys me that the authors chose key words like "savage" to describe the 5.7x28 and evoke some emotion from the readers. The 5.7x28 isn't savage. Flechette rounds are savage; hand grenades are savage. The five seven just shoots a very small and light bullet at a moderately high velocity.
They also got a "law enforcement source" to say "it's a bad-ass gun." No it isn't. From what I've heard it's actually a really light recoiling, easy to shoot gun. Now if Felton was toting around a Magnum Research Desert Eagle, then the "law enforcement source" would be right to call it a "bad-ass gun."

*rant mode off*

 

[atomd]

This is annoying....but they do a whole lot worse. For instance, when the navy base shooting happened, the media was showing their CGI videos of the event and the character had an AR. One news outlet actually said he used an "AR15 Shotgun". Gee, the people these reporters vote for want to ban AR15s and all of a sudden every single gun used to kill anyone is magically an AR15. Coincidence? Probably not.

If I knew nothing about cars but I had to write an article about a deadly high speed police chase, I wouldn't just spout "the suspects car had 10,000,000 horsepower, can go 0-200mph in 2 seconds and had been designed specifically by the manufacturer to outrun the police". I would use google for 30 seconds and get the correct (or at least mostly correct) info.

 

[barnbwt]

They are powered by emotion when it comes to guns like any other anti. Why would they bother to do research. They feel compelled to spout what they feel when it comes to issues like these. No other subject addles them like guns do, it's much like various prejudices of old, like antisemitism or hatred of Irish or black --the most ridiculous junk is made up to slander them. Guns, and what they represent to many ('arrogant white men', in case you need another dose of ridiculousness) are this generation's whipping boy since all others have been given protected status.

Bear it, and work to deny them opportunities to harm us

TCB

 

[akodo]

I think it stupider to chastise a reporter for not being an expert on gun terminology, especially when writing about a relatively obscure caliber to non-firearms enthusiasts. Reporters have to write articles related to all matter of subjects and it is absurd to think errors will never happen.

Right, because there isn't this thing called the internet that allows research to be quicker and easier than ever before

 

[Kiln]

The difference between a "clip" and a "magazine" is whether or not you care what anyone calls it.

Actually they have completely different definitions. It is like saying that the difference between a hammer and a wrench is whether or not you care what people call it.

 

[redbullitt]

The length is the scarier number!!! Good thing it wasn't a 10x25 lol

 

[Theohazard]

The difference between a "clip" and a "magazine" is whether or not you care what anyone calls it.

No, there is a distinct technical difference between a magazine and a clip. Just because many people don't know that difference doesn't make it correct.

 

[45_auto]

No, there is a distinct technical difference between a magazine and a clip. Just because many people don't know that difference doesn't make it correct.

Just because you believe that there is a difference doesn't make you correct.

Maybe if you get Miriam-Webster (most commonly used dictionary of the english language) to change their definition of a clip to whatever you believe that it should be, then more people would agree with you.

The most common definition states that a clip is a magazine from which ammunition is fed into the chamber of the weapon.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/clip

Definition of CLIP
2: a device to hold cartridges for charging the magazines of some rifles; also: a magazine from which ammunition is fed into the chamber of a firearm

 

[Sam1911]

Ooooh! Can we please have the inane "clip-vs.-magazine" argument again? PLEEEEASE?


No.

Never has a group grasped at a more flimsy straw in the never-ending quest to leverage pedantic trivialities as a means to appear superior to others.