Thread: The media and how they describe firearms

So was reading the read up about the bedroom murders and about half way down my eyes started to bleed, the terminology used to describe firearms are so bad they don't even make sense, if they want to bother trying to provide details why wouldn't they get them right?
None of the (real and bullshit) details make any sense to people who know nothing about firearms anyway.


• In his friend John's gun safe he was storing a Stag .223 semi-automatic rifle, a Ruger SR. 22 semi-automatic assault-type rifle and a .22-calibre assault-type rifle.
• At the house Mowatt lived in at Waimauku, police found a semi-automatic-style Ruger .22 rifle, a Remington shotgun, an airgun, a crossbow and arrows, grenades and mortar rounds and live ammunition.
• In the boot of Mowatt's car, they found a Ruger rifle stock with a sight scope attached and a .22 calibre firearm.
• At his home under renovation in Te Atatu, they found a large amount of ammunition, a .223 Remington rifle, a Stag-15 rifle, a DP wooden-barrel rifle and a bolt-action rifle.
• At a rented storage unit in Mowatt's name, they found a Ruger semi-automatic rifle.


The Bedroom Murders: 29 shots, 3 people dead. Why? - National - NZ Herald News