Stupid, stupid media
What’s wrong with this phrase:
A man fired a semi-automatic machine gun into the air during a fight in the parking lot at the Caribbean Gardens bar in Burlingame early Saturday, according to Burlingame police.
Semi-automatic machine gun? They don’t exist. It is either a semi-automatic (one shot per trigger pull) or fully-automatic (i.e., a machine gun) and keeps firing bullets as long as you hold down the trigger.
Update: It has been changed but the old URL still has the error. The new article is here and does not acknowledge the error.
April 27th, 2005 at 8:40 pm
What kind of idiot shoots into the air?
April 27th, 2005 at 9:35 pm
Perhaps they were using the Washington DC definition of a “machine gun”, ie a semiauto that holds more than 12 rounds.
Or perhaps they are idiots.