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Bastardous Bassist:
Great story about that from Simon Pegg (from his appearance on Top Gear):
"When we were doing spaced [Nick Frost] had to dismantle a gun for the show, so he took a replica MP5 home - which is a machine gun...  He stripped to the waist, it was summer time and he put a blindfold on and was kind of doing this (mimes disassembling a gun), took the blindfold off to check the watch and there were eight armed police officers in the living room with their guns drawn like, you know.  And they made the decision that Nick went like that (reaches forward) as opposed to that that (puts his hands up), which is what he did he did, they were going to shoot him."

Nodaisho:
Heard about this one. Going to the farmer's market around 4:20PM. Hmm.

For someone like me, who is interested in guns, this is just painful. If you are into cars, I would want to say it is something like someone mistaking a corvette for a mustang, except it isn't. It is someone mistaking an E-350 for a mustang, or for musicians, a double bass for a ukelele. I understand, most people can't tell an M4 from a hole in the ground, but it is still just ridiculous. This comes to mind:


Doesn't help that media coverage tends to do the same thing. No, I'm not doing the redneck "LIEberal MSM!" BS, I'm doing the "lazy fucks won't do thirty second's worth of fact checking" thing.

Melodic:
Oh come off it. There are a billion different circumstances where one big gun could be mistaken for another. I mean, sure, you can be an elitist to people who aren't into the same stuff you are, or you could just say "shit happens I guess" and move on.

LTK:
I wouldn't expect someone who sees a man with a gun walking down the street to verify what type of gun it was exactly before calling the police. Then again, you shouldn't try to act knowledgeable by sticking the same name on every gun you see, either.

"Hello, I need to report someone I saw with a gun earlier. I think it was a WKW Wilk Tor anti-materiel rifle, but I'm not sure about the caliber. I last saw him at the roof of an apartment building ten minutes ago, but I needed to know for sure if he was dangerous before calling."

Bastardous Bassist:
Exactly.  "I saw someone with a gun," is just fine.  If the police ask you to describe it, don't just say "Oh, it was an AK-47," unless you know what one of those is.  How about you, I don't know, use your words?  "It was really long, it had a stand and a scope."  That tells the police a lot more, and is more accurate.  Hell, I've shot an AK-47 and I still wouldn't be completely sure.

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