{"id":23765,"date":"2018-10-25T08:56:19","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T13:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=23765"},"modified":"2018-10-24T15:10:31","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T20:10:31","slug":"wherein-brian-j-vows-to-never-again-comment-on-firearms-in-mack-bolan-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/25\/wherein-brian-j-vows-to-never-again-comment-on-firearms-in-mack-bolan-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Wherein Brian J. Vows To Never Again Comment On Firearms In Mack Bolan Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Drake (no relation) has a letter from gun writer Jerry Ahern to Gold Eagle about <a href=\"https:\/\/briandrake88.blogspot.com\/2018\/10\/jerry-ahern-on-mack-bolans-weapons.html\" target=\"_new\">Mack Bolan&#8217;s weapons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the suggestions I&#8217;ve probably remarked on in individual book reports as <em>wrong!<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>On the plus side, I spared myself ignomy by mocking this passage from <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/24\/book-report-twisted-path-the-executioner-121-1989\/\" target=\"_new\">Twisted Path<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>McIntyre joined Carrillo.  &#8220;As we agreed.  Twenty cases of M-16s, ten cases of M-60 GPMGs and a hundred fifty cases of 7.62 mm ammunition.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I was all finta go full Nelson Muntz &#8220;Haw, haw!&#8221; on it publickly and say, &#8220;That ammunition doesn&#8217;t fit in either gun!&#8221;  But then I realized I was mistaking the M-60 for Ma Deuce, and the M-60 is chambered in 7.62 after all.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, well.<\/p>\n<p>(Reality check via <a href=\"https:\/\/booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com\/2018\/10\/realism.html\" target=\"_new\">Ms. K.<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Drake (no relation) has a letter from gun writer Jerry Ahern to Gold Eagle about Mack Bolan&#8217;s weapons. Many of the suggestions I&#8217;ve probably remarked on in individual book reports as wrong!. On the plus side, I spared myself ignomy by mocking this passage from Twisted Path: McIntyre joined Carrillo. &#8220;As we agreed. Twenty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23766,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23765\/revisions\/23766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}