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Originally Posted by wags
Appreciating that many of you have intimate knowledge of what-are-what in the gun world, most of us do not. So to explain to you all what someone who is ignorant of such knowledge like myself gleans from this article:
Meth Lab busted. Guns removed from bad people.
We don't care if it was an assault rifle, a machine gun, or a pellet gun. The fact is, these are the types of people who likely have no good intentions behind it.
Good for the cops. Busted up a horrible drug lab, and took some more guns away from bad people.
Correctly identifying the gun will have 0 impact on the large majority of folks who are actually reading the article based on a drug lab being broken, not the kind of gun that was taken during that.
Carry on fellas.
Cheers
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The simple fact is, the media intentionally refers to firearms as "assault" rifles in an attempt to sensationalize the event. If they reported that a pellet rifle was seized , it wouldn'd gather as much attention as reportinng that an "assault rifle" was seized. The media counts on the ignorance of people like yourself when they misrepresent the facts as they did in this report, because they are counting on you believing what is being reported without knowing any different. If they had found an old Cessna on the property that had been used to transport the drugs, they may have used the term "military" aircraft hoping that some clueless fools might belive that it was a jet fighter.