Re:An Appalachian gunsmith’s robot army (2009)
by jessaustin on Monday July 21, 2014 @03:12PM
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Based on sibling comments, that's also too much to expect of several HN readers. (Hint: shells don't leave by the front door.) I thought the most egregious howler was this one:
...a dainty, short-haired woman in high heels casually grips the gun and fires off eight hundred balls of .20-calibre [sic] metal in four seconds...
Although this is pretty bad, it would have been worse if the "balls" were described as 20-gauge as the author intended rather than 20-caliber which is just silly.
Expecting someone who writes for the New Yorker to understand how firearms work is, I think, expecting rather too much.