Keep this under your hat, tell no one
Tune into WATE “The News Station” tonight at 6:00.
You will laugh your ass off.
Resident WATE firearms expert Tearsa Smith shows the weapon from the Omaha Mall shooting. She correctly describes the SKS semiautomatic Russian military rifle and it is correctly captioned.
But what picture is under the caption?
Guess. No, you are mistaken.
The picture is of a Winchester lever action rifle. I swear. I am not making this up.
Be very quite, so I can get this on YouTube.
We have a lot of fun with Tearsa and her mastery of firearms. Honestly, it could have been a soldering iron and she would not know the difference.
December 6th, 2007 at 6:25 pm
At very least she could have a picture of a Bostick staple gun.
December 6th, 2007 at 7:10 pm
The news in Nashville said it was an AK47. Hard to believe they got it wrong.
December 6th, 2007 at 7:12 pm
Damn, they figured out it wasn’t a lever action rifle. It was funny but if you didn’t see it at 5:00, you won’t see it.
December 6th, 2007 at 7:13 pm
Everyone’s saying it’s an AK now. I’m guessing that they weren’t getting enough sensationalism from SKS.
December 6th, 2007 at 8:09 pm
link?
December 6th, 2007 at 8:30 pm
Thirdpower, they’re probably all taking their lead from Fox, who got it wrong also, referring to the weapon 3 times this morning (in one 2-minute story) as an “AK-47”.
Yesterday, I was ready to commend Fox for simply referring to it as a “rifle”, but I guess their commie news director figured out that “rifle” wouldn’t sell enough soap.
Buy those commie milsurp weapons now, folks, they will be gone on the first day of a (D)onk President’s administration, and even Bush may be talked into banning sales or 4473 transfers of them. After you buy them, don’t be satisfied with the one you got on your 4473, there’s a better one out there, so keep yourself open to a private trade.…
December 6th, 2007 at 10:00 pm
Google the incident with “SKK” instead of “SKS.” Hundreds of outlets are covering it as a Russian SKK rifle. Amazing.
December 7th, 2007 at 2:51 am
The SKK may actually be a real rifle. Googling it turns up some hits on Australian and New Zealand websites. It apparently is one of Norinco’s offerings.
December 7th, 2007 at 8:27 am
“Be very quite, so I can get this on YouTube.”
Let me know when that video is up.
December 7th, 2007 at 10:35 am
I saw video of the Omaha police chief calling it an AK-47 assault weapon here:
http://www.kirotv.com/video/14790000/index.html
What can you do?
December 7th, 2007 at 10:46 am
Let me know when that video is up.
Isn’t going to happen. WATE figured it out. Some of the cameramen or sound crew probably starting laughing.
December 7th, 2007 at 10:50 am
You know they read here, right? You probably tipped them off.
December 7th, 2007 at 11:23 am
I had forgotten that Jim does read Say Uncle. Oh well. Call it a public service.
I forgot to mention the 3D image of the Winchester lever action rifle was spun around 360 degrees in an animation. Watching Tearsa read the prompter with such confidence while the image of a lever action rifle was rotating was very funny.