Affectionately calls it the Judge? That’s the darn name of it, idiot.
All journalists should be required to take a course to learn about weapons and ammunition. Then maybe they’ll know their names and the difference between cartridges, bullets, semi-automatics, revolvers, and assault weapons - to name but a few terms they constantly screw up.
A certain New York newspaper referred to the Ruger 10/22 as a ‘machine gun’ in an article not too long ago...
And “clips”.
I kinda think that he DID affectionately refer to it as "The Judge".