Heh!
Bruce notes a report that a 38MM handgun has quite a kick. Then, they corrected this error noting it was a 0.38MM handgun.
For those who don’t know, it’s actually a .38 caliber handgun which is approximately 9.5MM, IIRC.
I’m sure this doesn’t matter to some folks because it doesn’t matter if the bullet is near 1.5 inches in diameter, or 0.38 inches in diameter, or 0.02 inches in diameter because they’re all killers so who needs the truth?
Update: They’ve since fixed it.
March 28th, 2005 at 1:07 pm
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In this post, I pointed out how a report had confused millimeters with caliber. I then (from memo […]
March 28th, 2005 at 1:08 pm
[…] en (from memory, TLTG) figured up a quick caliber conversion. I was wrong. Reader Andrew commentedAs I have no doubt you are aware, the .38 special caliber shoots 0.357&# […]
March 25th, 2005 at 5:45 pm
Now it’s just “38 caliber.”
March 25th, 2005 at 8:27 pm
As I have no doubt you are aware, the .38 special caliber shoots 0.357″ bullets, which equates to 9.0678mm (exactly – the inch has actually been defined as exactly 2.54cm. Interestingly the meter has been defined as the distance that light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 seconds. The second has been defined as the time it takes for 9,162,631,770 vibration cycles in the radiation emmited by cessium-133). Near enough to just call it 9mm. Now, if the .38 special actually fired 0.380″ bullets, it would be 9.652mm.