Why does every rifle used in a crime become a sniper rifle?
December 27th, 2009 by eranio
Even if you put a scope on a rifle, it doesn’t necessiaraly make it a sniper rifle, and most of the time they don’t even have scopes!
Like when Tyler Dumstorf blasted the cops, the media suddanly transformed his Garand into a "sniper rifle", and it’s about the ame for every other case!
Do they think it sounds scarie or something?
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December 27th, 2009 at 3:36 am
media is dumb./crooked
December 27th, 2009 at 3:36 am
"Sniper Rifle" is an improper term…..
They are actually typically referred to as "evil black long range murder rifles with high capacity "clips" firing sniping machine-gun bullets that are armor piercing, tracer, incindiery, high explosive, baby-seeking death devices capable of blowing trains off of tracks and shooting down high flying aircraft and typically employ additional devices that make them easier in baby killing such as bipods and scopes allowing the shooter to kill on demand with millimeters of accuracy miles away and they typically employ shoulder things that go up, and assault bayonets and they can shoot through armored limousines and 600 pound armored safes with 600 pounds of safe armor, and they have pistol grips so the shooter can fire fully automatic sniping machine gun bullets and no one can see him because he has a flash hider"…… any questions?
(Most of these phrases have actually been used by the gun grabbers, I thought I should give you a good source of "true" "facts".
December 27th, 2009 at 3:36 am
Media bias.
December 27th, 2009 at 3:36 am
The whole idea to that is that if you take a longer range, single shots you are using a sniper rifle but if you are taking short ranged and quicker shots you are using an assault rifle. The majority of people understand what each of these terms mean in media, but very few realize it is a wrong term by the true definition so there is no reason for that media outlet to correct itself.
December 27th, 2009 at 3:36 am
Sniper rifle is any rifle used for " Sniping" defined as follows
The act of shooting fro a concealed position from longer than standard range.
Any rifle can be used as a sniper rifle provided that the individual squeezing the trigger is shooting from a long distance from a concealed position.
There are rifles designed for such shooting but that does not make them the only "Sniper Rifle"
It is a simple mispronounciation of "Sniper’s Rifle"
December 27th, 2009 at 3:36 am
The media first, doesn’t know what type of rifle any rifle is. They simply don’t have the knowledge. So, every gun is a sniper rifle and "why do we need those?"
Second, the media as a larger contingent doesn’t care about telling us the "whole story" all of the time.
Thirdly, most of the media don’t like guns or understand much about guns.
Fourth, the media has an agenda, to help the Dems and anti gun people take our Gun Rights away from us.
Fifth, most of us americans live in Cities where a gun is used for nothing other than a "crime" by the media. The good citizens in cities that do hunt are few. If not for hunting, for personal protection. We gun owners that grew up in the country and have used guns for years to hunt with or target practice with know the difference, but city folk for the most part really don’t get it.
Education is the key, we really do need to educate our young people in the city as well as the country. Teach everyone about a gun and how safe a gun is!
A gun is only unsafe when used unsafely!
December 27th, 2009 at 3:36 am
I don’t know….but the M-1C and M-1D were actual military sniper versions of the Garand
But why is the shotgun looking firearm used in the Atlanta "mall jewelry hiest" repeatedly called a machine gun on Nancy grace last night. Unless it was a Browning BAR, reporters should not try to label firearms just to encite fear to the unsuspecting masses.
December 27th, 2009 at 3:36 am
Lack of understanding of firearms causes ppl to get the facts mixed up. It’s just like how some people would automatically assume that semi auto rifles with a pistol grip and a detachable mag classifies the rifle as an "assault wpn" even though they function differently from actual assault wpns in terms of being able to only fire on semi auto mode and cannot easily be converted to fire burst or full auto.
December 27th, 2009 at 3:36 am
Because "Sniper" has become a buzz word for both wannbe badasses and for gun grabbers.
Truth is, there is no such thing as a sniper rifle. Any rifle in the hands of a trained marksman can be a sniper’s rifle. Note the magic bullet firing piece of crap Carcano with the wobbly scope that Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly used to shoot JFK and John Connoly, with one bullet inflicting three wounds and falling out of Connolly’s clothes undamaged, can be called a sniper’s rifle since it got the job done.
The gun grabbers, and their media accomplices are out to demonize all firearms and all gun owners. So they call any scoped rifle a "Sniper Rifle." Also note that the next time your local news tells of a shooting incident, there will be a photo or drawing behind the anchor person depicting either an M-16, or a snubby Smith & Wesson revolver. These graphics will be shown regardless of the weapons involved in the incident. They are trying to demonize ugly black rifles and pocket revolvers.
Doc
December 27th, 2009 at 3:36 am
That’s directly related to ignorance and a desire for those on the political left to demonize all firearms.
If you don’t own one you better go out and buy one to protect yourself from the left wing nuts that want to disarm America before they try to do away with our Constitution.
December 27th, 2009 at 3:36 am
That one particular event had the Garand misnomenclatured as a ‘sniper rifle’ only because it was too big for the bleeding-heart Libertard biased media reporters to call it an ‘assault rifle’, their FAVORITE scary name for a long gun. . . . .
December 27th, 2009 at 3:36 am
simple answer to that question is "the media"
December 27th, 2009 at 3:36 am
I don’t need to answer your question, other people already did.
I just wanted to add in:
Don’t forget the "Cop Killer Bullets"
December 27th, 2009 at 3:36 am
The media is stupid, ignorant, and knows very little about guns. They just want to make headlines with any little thing. They always talk about bad people and their guns, but they never talk about the law abiding citizens who protected themselves from criminals.
December 27th, 2009 at 3:36 am
Thats the old fab, the new one is calling every gun an AK47 with high capacity "clips" ( they are magazines not clips).
December 27th, 2009 at 3:36 am
It’s because it has a scope on it, and is shot
from a distance, usually from an obscure location. Some crimes are committed with sawed off shotguns, and they are described
as such.
December 27th, 2009 at 3:36 am
the word snipper is used way to much by the media and the anti’s to make something sound bad, or to make a situation bigger than what it really is , and they just dont have a clue,
December 27th, 2009 at 3:36 am
Because the people who write for the various forms of news media usually don’t know what they are talking about and using terms like "sniper" rifle or "assault" rifle are so much more dramatic. Drama sells and they are in the business of selling their "news".
December 27th, 2009 at 3:36 am
The media does this for the same reason they show a cartoon picture of a Thompson sub-machine gun when the crime being reported was a stabbing or a handgun involved.
This subconsciously makes people think of all guns as machine guns and then it becomes easier to sell the idea of " banning all firearms". Typical uninformed or " hidden agenda" by the media. This BS has been around a long time. Same when they mis-use defining terms for assorted types of firearms. They tend to label all semi-auto pistols as automatics, when in reality there are very few automatic pistols made and they aren’t what you’d call tack drivers either.