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> What? Expecting someone who writes for the New Yorker to understand how firearms work is, I think, expecting rather too much.
by aaronem 12y ago
> What?
Expecting someone who writes for the New Yorker to understand how firearms work is, I think, expecting rather too much.
- jessaustin 12y agoBased on sibling comments, that's also too much to expect of several HN readers. (Hint: shells don't leave by the front door.) I thought the most egregious howler was this one: ...a dainty, short-haired woman in high heels casually grips the gun and fires off eight hundred balls of .20-calibre [sic] metal in four seconds... Although this is pretty bad, it would have been worse if the "balls" were described as 20-gauge as the author intended rather than 20-caliber which is just silly.
- russell 12y agoT buckshot is .20-caliber while 00 is .32-caliber.