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I was stumbling around looking for small caliber center-fire stuffs when I found this interesting, and rather long, blog. It pertains largely to how fiction writers ruin their stories by being clueless about guns. Especially murder/mystery/detective novels/scripts. Lord knows, I've seen my share of eye-rollers on TV shows. And the writer is right; I just cant watch it anymore.
But the part I found interesting was this:
[line]You definitely do not want to bandy about terminology or firearm effects if you don’t know for sure that the details are correct. For instance, I recently read a manuscript where the author had terrorists carry Kalashnikovs down a crowded New York street on the way to the embassy they’re attacking. She had heard that Muslim extremists would probably use that sort of weapon.
Unfortunately, a Kalashnikov is a big mother of a weapon, an AK-47 assault rifle recognizable by its half-wood/half-steel construction and the curved magazine that holds 30 rounds. It’s also three feet long and weighs well over ten pounds fully loaded. If your terrorists walked through Time Square carrying Kalashnikovs, not only would everybody they encountered run screaming, but very little time would pass before a horde of NY City’s Finest descended and took them out. (More on Kalashnikovs in Part III.)[line]
Read it again, and recognize the context presented by the writer.
Sum it up.
So-called "Assault Weapons" don't even make good fiction! And you definitely wouldn't want to OC one in NYC!
http://www.leelofland.com/wordpress/?p=734
I was stumbling around looking for small caliber center-fire stuffs when I found this interesting, and rather long, blog. It pertains largely to how fiction writers ruin their stories by being clueless about guns. Especially murder/mystery/detective novels/scripts. Lord knows, I've seen my share of eye-rollers on TV shows. And the writer is right; I just cant watch it anymore.
But the part I found interesting was this:
[line]You definitely do not want to bandy about terminology or firearm effects if you don’t know for sure that the details are correct. For instance, I recently read a manuscript where the author had terrorists carry Kalashnikovs down a crowded New York street on the way to the embassy they’re attacking. She had heard that Muslim extremists would probably use that sort of weapon.
Unfortunately, a Kalashnikov is a big mother of a weapon, an AK-47 assault rifle recognizable by its half-wood/half-steel construction and the curved magazine that holds 30 rounds. It’s also three feet long and weighs well over ten pounds fully loaded. If your terrorists walked through Time Square carrying Kalashnikovs, not only would everybody they encountered run screaming, but very little time would pass before a horde of NY City’s Finest descended and took them out. (More on Kalashnikovs in Part III.)[line]
Read it again, and recognize the context presented by the writer.
Sum it up.
So-called "Assault Weapons" don't even make good fiction! And you definitely wouldn't want to OC one in NYC!
http://www.leelofland.com/wordpress/?p=734
