BBC News grammatical triumphs
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Giving evidence from behind a screen, one of the policemen, identified only as 'Officer A', said he repeatedly fired on Mr Bennett with his Glock machine gun.
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Hmm. Glock don't manufacture "machine guns". They make pistols - rather nice ones. The closest they come to a "machine gun" is the model 18. Which is a "fully automatic pistol" that can, at a pinch, be used on automatic with a natural downgrading in accuracy due to it being, after all, a pistol not a machine gun. However, as far as Google is concerned, the Met use the Glock 17 which is a standard semi-auto pistol. So either Officer A, a qualified weapons officer, doesn't know what guns he uses or the BBC journalist in question can't be bothered to check their reports for basic accuracy..