Does anyone else get irritated when they read a novel and the writer doesn't know their behind from a hole in the ground concerning guns? Stephen King is notorious for this, referring to the .30-.30 (he does this in The Stand, 'Salem's Lot and Under the Dome. He makes reference to the Glock model 7--and a special bonus point if you know where that is from!--in Under the Dome, and in The Stand, has a soldier shooting a portable recoilless rifle firing 70 rounds a second, with something called gas-tipped slugs, no less. That's quite a feat.
He has US Army units equipped with BAR's in the 1990's and after a revolver fires, it is dropped and discharges again. These were also from The Stand.
In 11-22-63, he has a sales clerk "spinning the barrels, click!-click!-click!" of a Colt revolver.
A bunch of just plain ignorant stuff like that.
Does anyone else have other examples of colossal ignorance, from King or anyone else?
I enjoy reading King's stories, (most of them anyway) but I do find his abysmal ignorance of guns appalling.
He has US Army units equipped with BAR's in the 1990's and after a revolver fires, it is dropped and discharges again. These were also from The Stand.
In 11-22-63, he has a sales clerk "spinning the barrels, click!-click!-click!" of a Colt revolver.
A bunch of just plain ignorant stuff like that.
Does anyone else have other examples of colossal ignorance, from King or anyone else?
I enjoy reading King's stories, (most of them anyway) but I do find his abysmal ignorance of guns appalling.