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?
Maybe they were single shot automatics!
ReplyDeleteI 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?
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