Friday, July 06, 2007

Guns found in Library

It seems the maintenance man was working at the University of New Orleans library and found a set of guns. The article gives us no clue as to what kind of guns they were.
When a maintenance man was changing light bulbs Wednesday in the University of New Orleans' library, he found two items on a shelf that were obviously out of place: a pair of single-shot revolvers.
I've been playing with guns a long time and I've never heard of single shot revolvers. Revolvers, by their very nature, have more that one shot. The most common revolver is the standard 6-shooter.

The Times-Picayune gets it wrong, not once, but twice when they tell us that:
"If I were going to a gunfight, I wouldn't be going with a single-shot revolver," Harrington said.
I wouldn't either.

This is a simple case of a reporter, having no clue, not bothering to check the facts.

The Library Chronicles wonders if they can be had on Interlibrary Loan?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Maybe they were single shot automatics!

Anonymous said...

I read on Kim du Toit's blog that some animal control personel, in England, are only allowed to carry a .22 revolver with five of the chambers plugged. Maybe the guns mentioned are of that variety?