"Only a matter of time before the islamic brotherhood or AQ or hezbollah smuggle in some AK47's."
No question. But there were, in fact, shotguns. Just that not all the leftist writers were willing to say it. I wanted to get that particular point straight, one way or the other.
The word, "pellets", used following up the word, "hunting rifles", it was all an effort to confuse and throw dirt in the eyes of the reader, IMO.
You're right...that point needs to be made. I can't believe the deliberate way in which the MSM is playing down this story. Usually they hype a story like this to death. That convinces me that there's a lot more here than meets the eye so far.
"The word, "pellets", used following up the word, "hunting rifles", it was all an effort to confuse and throw dirt in the eyes of the reader, IMO."
Probably it was just a bad translation from a French article.
In French, the word for rifle is "fusil". And the word for shotgun is "fusil".
So, if someone was translating an article from a French source, he (or his Babblefish program) translated the pellets, but then translated "fusil" as "rifle", which is the normal translation, instead of "shotgun", which would have been idiomatic in English.