The National Interest

[PapaG]

A news feed crops up now and again on my tablet with one entry as stated in the title. Several different writers. After reading a few, I now scroll past. These "gun writer/experts" are anything but. Hyperbole, misinformation, and sensation are the rule of the day. I guess if you want a laugh and can overlook the potential damage done through non-gun culture types reading and taking them for gospel it would be ok.
"New army rifle hits with the pressure of a tank".
"The Model 29--most dangerous gun in the world".
"The British rifle that won WWII".
And on and on. "The bullet hits with X pounds of pressure".
There are a few other feeds almost as bad.

 

[NIGHTLORD40K]

Indeed, they pass off op-ed and regurgitated stories from actual military and geopolitical sources that they have dumbed down for a mass market audience, with many technical innacuracies. Often the pictures they credit as a certain weapons system wont even match the text. Clearly their contributors and editors dont have a clue.

 

[somethingbenign]

Saw one of there's awhile back. Headline was along the line of crossing a rifle and a gun you get what we know is an AR pistol. Yes, cross a rifle and gun...

 

[Charlie Horse]

I've seen them in my newsfeed too. They're so bad, that they're almost comical.

 

[NIGHTLORD40K]

I've seen them in my newsfeed too. They're so bad, that they're almost comical.

I wonder if the entire site is run by a Russian troll farm.....

 

[Charlie Horse]

I've wondered that too, but I always thought that the Russians were a little more competent than that...

 

[AlexanderA]

Typical click bait. These things are often composed by "content bots," not by human writers. It's just a regurgitation of key words found on the Web, strung together with some semblance of logic, which usually fails on closer examination.

 

[GEM]

Not really our issue, but I agree with the analysis.

Thus closed.