I made a couple of additions and one alteration to Joe's Journalists Guide to Firearm Identification.
Guides like this should be regularly updated with the latest terminology. When they are not updated you get journalists writing nonsense, like we saw yesterday on The Firearm Blog.
ROFLOL! I love it Steve! Yes, post more of the Journalist’s guides.
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0Hilarious!
0 0I’m thinking about changing my name to AK-47 for short.
0 0I thought the top left was an M16… with the amazing tank piercing 5.56 NATO that kills Vietnamese children and Code Pink activists.
0 0So that is a full-auto armor piercing bolt action anti-aircraft gun right? Need to get one of those for the reporters in the news choppers.
p.s.- Steve you should add a camera as an AK-47 variant haha
0 0Great guide, reminds me of the ufo/swamp gas chart.
Minor nitpick though, journalists without fail always refer to the AK as a Kalashnikov. Not that this is innacurate, but it’s only journalists who adhere to this strange convention.
0 0Any pictures of firearms in UK papers just has the caption “Deadly” or “Evil” usually…
0 0It may be a good idea to translate this to a spanish version, most journalists here in Mexico need a little bit of knowledge about weapons, and this is a very good source of info. ROFL
0 0The spud gun has a return spring which will show up on X-ray, and will probably trigger the metal detector.
0 0Kyle, unless it is 100% plastic like Glocks (see Spuds comment above) 
0 0Hey I don’t care what you say, my AK47 gets amazing gas mileage and a good 270HP.
0 0The little red AK shoots potato fragments by means of (lightly) compressed air. Ammo is produced by pushing the barrel into a potato. When removing the gun from the vegetable the barrel is loaded with a tightly fitting starch projectile. This weapon is exceedingly dangerous since neither gun nor ammo contain any metal parts and thus cannot be detected by metal detectors!
0 0Hmm…I think you’ve got the captions reversed on those last two photos. I think the sniper rifle is on the left.
0 0Lolz. Good job Steve. You forgot a picture of a Glock and the words ‘Plastic Gun for Smuggling on Planes by Terrorists’.
0 0Could all journalists please use the word ‘Magnum’ after describing any bullet size to make their articles more salaicious.
As in – ‘The gunman was brandishing a pump action semi automatic AK-47 loaded with 7.62 Magnums.’
0 0Don’t forget, I think that high-capacity semi-automatic handgun shoots cop killing armor piercing ammunition.
0 0No Tavor? No Micro Tavor?
That’s just sad 
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0 0DoubleTapper, don’t you mean AK-47?
0 0SWEET!!!!
I had no idea my PPK was the same as an AK-47.
Can someone tell me how to get the 7.62 x39 bullets into the PPK mag?
They seem a bit long or something?
0 0Spudgun, is really depends which AK-47 … I near the AK-47 with wheels shoots the magnum, but the plastic toy AK-47 does not
Kerry, you a journalist?
0 0Hmm, what kind of AK-47 is the little red one with the squeeze handle?
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Great guide, reminds me of the ufo/swamp gas chart.
Minor nitpick though, journalists without fail always refer to the AK as a Kalashnikov. Not that this is innacurate, but it’s only journalists who adhere to this strange convention.
Any pictures of firearms in UK papers just has the caption “Deadly” or “Evil” usually…
It may be a good idea to translate this to a spanish version, most journalists here in Mexico need a little bit of knowledge about weapons, and this is a very good source of info. ROFL
So that is a full-auto armor piercing bolt action anti-aircraft gun right? Need to get one of those for the reporters in the news choppers.
p.s.- Steve you should add a camera as an AK-47 variant haha
I thought the top left was an M16… with the amazing tank piercing 5.56 NATO that kills Vietnamese children and Code Pink activists.
ROFLOL! I love it Steve! Yes, post more of the Journalist’s guides.
Hilarious!
I’m thinking about changing my name to AK-47 for short.
The spud gun has a return spring which will show up on X-ray, and will probably trigger the metal detector.
Kyle, unless it is 100% plastic like Glocks (see Spuds comment above)
No Tavor? No Micro Tavor?
That’s just sad
DoubleTapper
DoubleTapper@gmail.com
DoubleTapper, blogging on Guns Politics Defense from Israel
DoubleTapper, don’t you mean AK-47?
SWEET!!!!
I had no idea my PPK was the same as an AK-47.
Can someone tell me how to get the 7.62 x39 bullets into the PPK mag?
They seem a bit long or something?
Spudgun, is really depends which AK-47 … I near the AK-47 with wheels shoots the magnum, but the plastic toy AK-47 does not
Kerry, you a journalist?
Don’t forget, I think that high-capacity semi-automatic handgun shoots cop killing armor piercing ammunition.
Could all journalists please use the word ‘Magnum’ after describing any bullet size to make their articles more salaicious.
As in – ‘The gunman was brandishing a pump action semi automatic AK-47 loaded with 7.62 Magnums.’
Hey I don’t care what you say, my AK47 gets amazing gas mileage and a good 270HP.
The little red AK shoots potato fragments by means of (lightly) compressed air. Ammo is produced by pushing the barrel into a potato. When removing the gun from the vegetable the barrel is loaded with a tightly fitting starch projectile. This weapon is exceedingly dangerous since neither gun nor ammo contain any metal parts and thus cannot be detected by metal detectors!
Hmm…I think you’ve got the captions reversed on those last two photos. I think the sniper rifle is on the left.
Lolz. Good job Steve. You forgot a picture of a Glock and the words ‘Plastic Gun for Smuggling on Planes by Terrorists’.
Hmm, what kind of AK-47 is the little red one with the squeeze handle?