{"id":94,"date":"2011-09-07T11:12:51","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T17:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clarybooks.com\/?p=94"},"modified":"2011-09-07T11:13:44","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T17:13:44","slug":"on-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clarybooks.com\/?p=94","title":{"rendered":"On Guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick post to keep some informational links in place. Over at Kindleboards, there was a recent thread on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kindleboards.com\/index.php\/topic,82095.0.html\">writing about guns<\/a> for those of us who don&#8217;t have much shooting experience. The thread is worth reading, but a couple of links were posted that I don&#8217;t want to lose track of.<\/p>\n<p>One discovery from that thread is from author R. Doug Wicker, who has written a series of blog posts on firearms for fiction writers. He began with a post on <a href=\"http:\/\/rdougwicker.com\/2011\/08\/29\/firearms-for-formulators-of-fiction%E2%80%94revolvers\/\">revolvers<\/a>, and then added a two-part series on semiautomatiics. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/rdougwicker.com\/2011\/08\/31\/firearms-for-formulators-of-fiction%E2%80%94semiautomatics-part-1\/\">Part 1<\/a> and here is <a href=\"http:\/\/rdougwicker.com\/2011\/09\/02\/firearms-for-formulators-of-fiction%E2%80%94semiautomatics-part-2\/\">Part 2<\/a>. Thanks, R. Doug, for sharing your expertise with the rest of us!<BR \/><\/p>\n<p>In addition, there was a good bit of discussion on terminology, particularly the use of &#8220;clip&#8221; vs. &#8220;magazine&#8221; as ammunition-holding tools. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minutemanreview.com\/2008\/09\/clip-vs-magazine-lesson-in-firearm.html\">Minuteman Review<\/a> has an article discussing this further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick post to keep some informational links in place. Over at Kindleboards, there was a recent thread on writing about guns for those of us who don&#8217;t have much shooting experience. The thread is worth reading, but a <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clarybooks.com\/?p=94\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x1Kd-1w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarybooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarybooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarybooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarybooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarybooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarybooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarybooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarybooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarybooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}