600 Round magazines

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kaiser715

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Posted over at S&W Forum (by COL Jagdog). Worth sharing:

As many of you may have seen, in Time's January 28 special report on gun control, they had a grapic depicting various types of firearms and magazines and their cost. Among the depictions: a "600 round magazine" that was drum-shaped and cost less than $50. Any reader unfamiliar with firearms would have concluded that 600 round magazines are readily available for "assault rifles" as those weapons were depicted next to the "600 round magazine".

In the new February 4, 2013 issue of Time, in a tiny box in very small lettering (much smaller than the font of the regular text of the magazine), at the very bottom of page two, next to the Customer Service info, is the statement: "Setting The Record Straight" with this explanation about the "600 round magazine":

"In a graphic, we listed the price of a 600 round magazine but mischaracterized its use. That magazine is for an airsoft pellet gun, not an actual firearm."

Holy cow, after mis-leading the entire country about the availability of "600 round magazines" and depicting such a magazine next to an "assault rifle", their explanation is 'oops'.

Do they have no fact-checkers, no copywriters/young special report editors, no person with any journalistic integrity to get their facts right? No one with a college degree smart enough to research the topic "firearms" or a source familiar with firearms to cross-check their story with?

Or was this a deliberate attempt to mislead the American public, that, yes, there are 600 round magazines available for sale to the general public for less than $50; that some miscreant might use a 600 round magazine to shoot up some public venue and cause 200-300 casualties -- which is the ploy I believe they were trying to suggest.

We are in a tragic and dire place with the current state of "journalism" in this country.
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^ this is why I don't get magazines, newspapers or pay ANY attention to the news. The lefties bend the info to suit them, and the sheeple follow.
 
I watched a thing on Cspan last night and they were talkin to NRA President David Keene.One of the things they questioned him about was 100 round drum magazines.He said that he didnt think there would ever be a problem w them due to the fact that they didnot operate correctly.He said rarely did they empty the drum w/o hangin up.
 
1-tonmudder said:
I watched a thing on Cspan last night and they were talkin to NRA President David Keene.One of the things they questioned him about was 100 round drum magazines.He said that he didnt think there would ever be a problem w them due to the fact that they didnot operate correctly.He said rarely did they empty the drum w/o hangin up.
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Yep, the only hands-on I ever had with a drum was fire 5 rounds, clear, fire 5 founds, clear, rise, lather, repeat.
 
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