{"id":6135,"date":"2012-01-17T16:50:28","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T22:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=6135"},"modified":"2012-01-17T16:50:28","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T22:50:28","slug":"the-journalists-guide-to-firearms-identification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=6135","title":{"rendered":"The Journalist&#8217;s Guide to Firearms Identification."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a bit of a kerfluffle last week. A group of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.chron.com\/newswatch\/2012\/01\/robbers-with-ak-47s-hit-walmart-on-1960\/\">intruders with assault rifles<\/a>&#8221; robbed a Walmart in the Houston area.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.chron.com\/newswatch\/2012\/01\/robbers-with-ak-47s-hit-walmart-on-1960\/\">Television station KPRC reported that the assault rifles were AK-47s.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Today, the <strong>HouChron<\/strong> is reporting that they caught the alleged robbers. (Actually, the girlfriend of one of them turned them in.) And&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/news\/houston-texas\/article\/Teens-arrested-in-Atascocita-Walmart-heist-2583902.php\">She said the three had a large amount of cash and a long-barrel weapon, which she said they called an &#8220;SKS,&#8221; records state. According to online information, the SKS is a widely sold copy of the Russian AK-47 assault rifle.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SKS\">Not so much<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.robballen.com\/2009\/09\/08\/p3717-because-im-nothing-if-not-helpful.post\">Hattip<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a bit of a kerfluffle last week. A group of &#8220;intruders with assault rifles&#8221; robbed a Walmart in the Houston area. Television station KPRC reported that the assault rifles were AK-47s. Today, the HouChron is reporting that they caught the alleged robbers. (Actually, the girlfriend of one of them turned them in.) And&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clippings","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6135"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6137,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6135\/revisions\/6137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}