watch out for deadly M-40 Carbine Guns.

[atek3]

http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/article.cfm?archiveDate=09-10-04&storyID=19591

I wrote a letter to the editor over it.

atek3

 

[atek3]

here's the letter

I read Volume 5, Issue 45 of the BDP and I have to ask, do you have a fact checker?
Read the following line from article "Police Special Unit Accused of Improper Search and Detention" by Matthew Artz:
"Within seconds, Tweedie said, a team of five SEU officers had battered down her door, shoved her to the kitchen floor and pointed their M-40 carbine guns at her. "
M-40 Carbine guns? who makes up this stuff. Either the SEU had MP-5 submachine guns or they had M-4 carbines . They did not however have "M-40 (sic) carbine guns (sic)". That makes about as much sense as calling a particular car a "Mazda rx-70 car automobile".

Just so you'd know,
atek3

 

[Zundfolge]

M-40 Carbine?

Whats that? A shortened M40A1 7.62mm Sniper Rifle?

A Steyr M40 with stock?

Isn't there an AK variant called an M40?



I bet they really meant M4 but its more proof that most "journalists" don't know s*** from shinola.

 

[Ian]

I wonder if it's a gun that shoots carbines?

 

[SJ]

Rats, only one number off from the M41A1 Pulse Rifle:

They're probably on requisition and have to make due with the obsolete M40 Carbine Guns until the real firepower arrives

 

[QuarterBoreGunner]

There you go stirrin' stuff up again...

 

[Justin]

Ya know, of all the things in that little news blurb to get angry about, screwing up the names of the guns is pretty much dead last on the list.

 

[atek3]

good point justin. fortunatly berkeley has copwatch and is pretty anti-JBT. The carbine gun thing was just kind of a pet peeve (calling magazines clips etc.)

atek3

 

[ilcylic]

Tsk tsk Zundfolge... That there's a short barrelled rifle now...

Better be careful or you'll get your own JBT visit.

-Ogre