Dear Twin Cities (and National) Media:  please use this handy guide for identifying firearms.

It’s vetted by the NYTimes, so you just know it’s right:

Via regular commenter Seflores and Ace.

NOTE:  OK, on a more serious note:  this is a subject where the media’s vaunted “fact-checking” is more often than not humiliatingly bad.  And it’s on a subject where the vast majority of Americans are better-than you are or could reasonably make them.

Why not admit ignorance, shut up and learn something?