Media Gun Cluelessness of the Day: Atlantic Edition

January 4, 2012

Highlighting efforts to reduce the Big Easy’s homicide rate, Atlantic contributor Julie Dermansky rode along with New Orleans officer David DeSalvo recently. According to her piece, DeSalvo prides himself on confiscating (presumably illegal) guns. While officer DeSalvo’s only been on the job two years, he’s part of a long-standing tradition in the city that care forgot. The NOPD has years of experience taking guns away from the populace. One of the most recent of which is what the mystified author describes as a “9mm automatic shotgun.” That’s the rara avis she’s talking about, pictured above. Kinda hard to tell, but it appears to be a chop shop version of a Hi-Point carbine. Or something. Pardon the LULZ, but it’s a good thing the Atlantic – like so much of the old media – has all those fact-checkers toiling away, no?

16 COMMENTS

Paul January 4, 2012 At 09:05

Now that’s funny. A 9MM shotgun.
I do want to know where that mag came from though. I need one of these for my HP.

Paul
- Just Another Matt January 4, 2012 At 09:08
  
  same here
- Pro.0s January 4, 2012 At 10:43
  
  Looks like a Hi-Point with a broken stock juxtaposed with a Glock happy stick (judging from the baseplate, as it doesn’t look like a hi-point mag’s) Could be wrong though.
  - Derek January 4, 2012 At 16:23
    
    I think it’s too thin. All Hi Point mags are single stack, including the 9mms. And that baseplate is huge and looks rubber.
Moonshine7102 January 4, 2012 At 09:14

Just hypothetically, what the **** would one use a “9mm automatic shotgun” for? Dragonflies?
Coyote Gray January 4, 2012 At 09:52

Yet another reason the old, typical, print media is dying a slow ugly death. Because it begged for it.
- Ralph January 4, 2012 At 10:45
  
  print media is dying a slow ugly death
  
  Not fast enough. It will be a great day when the New York Times implodes as a result of its own fatuousness.
  - Bob Wall April 28, 2013 At 14:20
    
    Ralph – Along with the WaPo. Both are subletting the basement of the journalistic outhouse.
Aharon January 4, 2012 At 11:37

“Julie Dermansky is a multimedia reporter and artist based in New Orleans. She is an affiliate scholar at Rutgers University’s Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights. Visit her website at http://www.jsdart.com.”
http://www.theatlantic.com/julie-dermansky/

Photographer artist who is regarded as a scholar somehow on Genocide. Julie girl needs to swing over to the JPFO site and read up about how all genocides were proceeded with gun control. If Julie doesn’t like to read then she can also watch the JPFO DVD on the same subject.

Like so many schools, Rutger once had a fine reputation. What is going on with scholarship and education in modern America?
CarlosT January 4, 2012 At 12:38

What gauge would that be? You’d get what, two or three pellets of birdshot?
- Moonshine7102 January 4, 2012 At 13:08
  
  104.67 gauge, roughly.
Joe nobody January 4, 2012 At 13:23

Who knows maybe it was loaded with cci shot shells. the ideal weapon for hunting new york city rats. Not exactly the ideal weapon for harming other human beings.
Gossven January 4, 2012 At 17:31

Its a rare 9mm flobert semi-auto shotgun.
John January 4, 2012 At 17:53

Those are armor-piercing rounds, right? 🙂
Bobby January 6, 2012 At 02:29

Didn’t Winchester actually make a bolt action 9mm shotgun at one time?
julie dermansky March 14, 2012 At 13:09

You got me with me gun name error. I should have double checked that. I had it corrected right away when it was brought to my attention I have it wrong. Now I must correct you on an error. Using my © image. You are infringing on my copyright. You do not have my permission to use my photograph. you are welcome to license this image or use a small portion a very small portion of it with a link back to the article but to outright post it is not permitted. I would think someone like yourself would respect © laws.