OrdC
2008-06-08 08:41:34
Did anyone else see this quote?
“Inside the cases were semi-automatic machine guns, which once retrieved from the baggage claim were used in the attack.”
A “semi-automatic machine gun”???
By definition that is an oxymoron.
As an old US Army Ordnance officer, I always thought the reason one made a machine gun was so it would NOT be semi-automatic; & the only reason to make a semi-automatic weapon was so it would NOT be a machine gun.
Well, at least the author did not call it a “semi-automatic assault rifle”, which is another oxymoron, since by definition an assault rifle must be fully-automatic.
