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user-inactivated  ·  1535 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: FBI Background Checks For Gun Sales Have Hit An Annual Record Already, Fueled By Covid-19

That Street View is amazing, and then I turned around and had to Google "palm trees Seattle". For some reason I keep thinking it's so much further north.

I actually did a Google News search for that article, the one I first read was in Swedish and foreign correspondents rarely seem to leave New York. It's also hilarious how Google translates "ammunitionstorka" (literally "ammunition drought") to "drone strikes".





kleinbl00  ·  1535 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Arms dealer Cliff Pfleger (right) shows off one of the most popular weapons: a Mossberg 500.

I think it's worth noting that seeing the phrase "arms dealer" gave me pause. Acceptable phrasing includes "gun dealer" "gun shop" "sporting arms dealer" and I've even seen "broker in sporting weapons." "Arms dealers" are guys like Adnan Khashoggi and Viktor Bout, not Lynnwood Gun. No, no. Those aren't "Arms dealers", what is this a third world country?

I'll bet Google Translate is region sensitive. Here the phrase is

    Store owners testify to empty warehouses and ammunition droughts in the wake of the pandemic and the violent protests - and more Americans are arming themselves for the very first time.