Prosecutor Jane Mitford said: "Police executed a search warrant at the defendant's home and found the gun among toys on top of a wardrobe.Its handle..?
"It was a 9mm weapon with its breach closed.
"Seven live rounds were loaded in the magazine, which itself was loaded into the gun's handle."
I'm pretty sure that isn't the correct spelling of 'breech' either, but I'm putting that down to lousy journalism...
Butt and breech are two words you do not often see in the same sentence, unless you are an MP, I suppose.
ReplyDeleteIIRR
ReplyDeleteIt's "Grip" for a pistol, and Butt for a rifle.
However you spell it, why on earth does the case for the prosecution bother telling us it was closed? If anything, that's a fraction safer than open, as well as being kinder on the return spring, though God knows how it matters anyway.
ReplyDeleteWhat colour was it? Was the serial number a prime? We need to be told.
Whenever anybody talks of firearms in the media, they always get it wrong, as someone who knows a lot about firearms, uses them for work, and a hobby, I am appauled by the ignorance shown.
ReplyDeleteStill in a world of labour and the lowest common denomenator, what can one expect?
AC1
ReplyDeleteRifles have stocks, pistols and revolvers have butts. Sometimes the butt has a grip.
Pedant is my middle name.
It's a privilege to be out-pedanted.
ReplyDelete"Butt and breech are two words you do not often see in the same sentence, unless you are an MP, I suppose."
ReplyDeleteLol!
"However you spell it, why on earth does the case for the prosecution bother telling us it was closed? "
I sometimes wonder if they aren't paid by the word...
"Whenever anybody talks of firearms in the media, they always get it wrong..."
Journalists. It's a hard job, isn't it? They go to university, you know...
Journalists. It's a hard job, isn't it? They go to university, you know...
ReplyDeleteAnd THAT'S the problem.