Layers of editorial oversight
Remember when the press was all ga-ga over AK-15s? Now, someone is smuggling AR-47s into Mexico:
In the back of the vehicle they found 16 weapons. Ten AR-15’s which is the type of rifle our officers use. 5 AR 47s and high caliber handguns and our understanding was that the weapons were going to be taken into Mexico.”
January 20th, 2011 at 10:58 am
http://www.sr-25.com/New%20AR47.htm
THE UNICORN, SHE EXISTS!
January 20th, 2011 at 11:01 am
Yeah, I know. But that’s not what they’re showing at the story.
January 20th, 2011 at 11:08 am
The media loves to tack on those qualifiers, don’t they?
A handgun has to be “high” caliber, a rifle “high” power, or automatic, or armor piercing. There is nothing more worn than a journalist’s thesaurus.
January 20th, 2011 at 11:10 am
High powered weapons, my ass.
January 20th, 2011 at 11:13 am
Well of course! Uh, the AR stands for “Assault Rifle” right?
January 20th, 2011 at 11:53 am
I didn’t know they were searching BATFE vehicles!
January 20th, 2011 at 12:05 pm
“AR-47” I had to think about for a second, you know Stoner created a lot of cool stuff that didn’t get as popular as the AR-15…
January 20th, 2011 at 4:04 pm
The reporters did a better job with the television broadcast story. They called everything by it’s correct name. Truth be told it actually sounds like law enforcement caught a bad man who was also helping in getting illegals into the country. This being the case I’ll give them the typo this time around.