It isn't just journalists. It's cops that get it wrong all the time too.http://bearingarms.com/west-palm-beach-pd-claims-suspect-shot-by-officers-had-ak-47-shows-m1-carbine-ak-magazine-and-5-56-bullets/The dude in FL was killed for supposedly producing this:For the uninitiated, that is a M1 Carbine "Para" with a folding stock. The magazine next to it is an old soviet AK-47 mag. It can't fit in the gun. And to add to the levity, the pile of ammunition is all 5.56 x 45, the standard round of the M-16/M-4 variants. It can't fit in the magazine that can't fit in the gun.Now, what happened here? Don't know. All I know is that the cops produced a non-lethal pile of parts and proclaimed it enough to have killed a man. And the press, with ZERO knowledge of anything regarding firearms, laps it up.
Arce will be picking up several individuals tonight.