From the LA Times:
How did Newsweek get Sarah Palin to pose with a rifle?And of course it is painfully obvious to anyone who knows the least bit about guns that that is not a rifle that Sarah is holding. It is an over/under breach-loading shotgun broken open at the breech which is the perfect way to carry it. You might conk someone with the barrel but it will not fire.
How did Newsweek convince Gov. Sarah Palin to pose with a rifle for its cover?
Simple. It didn't.
Instead, it used an archive (fancy speak for old) stock photo of her taken back in June 2002 and used it for the cover without her knowledge.
However, to the magazine's credit, it did not try to hide the fact that it's a stock photo, even printing circa 2002 on the cover and again referencing the date in Jon Meacham's editor letters entitled "The Palin Problem."
So that makes it OK.
Right? Or maybe not? What do you think?
Hey, is that even the right way to hold a rifle? Can't you shoot your foot off like that?
Just wondering.
Photo: courtesy of Newsweek
When the post says rifle, this is a direct quote from the LA Time article.
Anything that is indented is quoted from another source. Anything that is not indented is me.
As an example, at the bottom, I say the following:
"And of course it is painfully obvious to anyone who knows the least bit about guns that that is not a rifle that Sarah is holding. It is an over/under breach-loading shotgun broken open at the breech which is the perfect way to carry it. You might conk someone with the barrel but it will not fire."
It's not a rifle. It's a shotgun. You can see that the barrels are open. The weapon cannot be fired in it's pictured configuration. Yes it is safe to carry "like that". And often is.