Assault weapons aren’t machine guns
But that doesn’t keep the ChicTrib from obfuscating the two:
Six months before he allegedly killed 14-year-old Starkesia Reed in a spray of automatic gunfire, gang member Carail Weeks went to Indiana to buy an AK-47.
Weeks already had been under investigation by federal agents for almost two months last September because a gun he had previously bought in Indiana had been seized in an armed robbery arrest, according to law enforcement sources.
But that didn’t stop Weeks from going to a suburban Indianapolis gun shop, showing a fake Indiana state identification card, and walking out with two handguns and an AK-47—the type of gun used to kill Starkesia on March 3, the sources said.
March 16th, 2006 at 10:57 am
I guess it’s time to crank up the anti-gun-show-hysteria a notch or two.
March 16th, 2006 at 12:58 pm
I don’t think “obfuscate” means what you think it means. “Conflate” would probably be a better word… 🙂
March 16th, 2006 at 4:20 pm
M-W.com
Obfuscate: 1 a : DARKEN b : to make obscure 2 : CONFUSE
Conflate: 1 a : to bring together : FUSE b : CONFUSE 2 : to combine (as two readings of a text) into a composite whole
Either works for me.