What Kind of Gun Is It?
An article in The Sun describes a shooting in England. If you click the link, you’ll see that about halfway through the article there’s a picture or a policeman with what looks to me like some kind of submachinegun (perhaps an MP5). But the caption says: “cop with high-powered rifle.”
I guess since it’s scary-looking, it must be high-powered.
P.S.: I showed the article to the another firearms-enthusiast, and he said immediately, “That’s not a high-powered rifle; that’s one of those H&K subbies.”
June 7th, 2004 at 1:53 pm
But…but…but…
Guns are ILLEGAL in England. How could a shooting have happened in a gun-free Utopia like England?
June 7th, 2004 at 2:31 pm
I suspect it’s America’s fault, somehow.
June 7th, 2004 at 10:57 pm
Perspective is everything.
In (not so)Great Britain, anything more powerful than a slingshot is ‘high-powered’.
At least they got the ‘rifle’ part right.
June 7th, 2004 at 11:25 pm
Touché.
June 7th, 2004 at 11:36 pm
Actually, it is all one word. Highpoweredrifle. The only kind. Except with air rifles, where they make a distinction. An air rifle is designated as high-powered, and requires a special license (the license requires reference letters from your doctor and vicar) if it is capable of a muzzle energy of 12 ft-lbs. On a hot day, with an oily Diablo pellet, one shot in ten.