Killer misquote

An article last week by Peter Godwin was headlined ‘I once thought of killing Ian Smith. Now I think he was misunderstood’. We wrongly used quotation marks suggesting these were the author’s words. They were not. Godwin believes Smith’s policies were a major contributing factor to Zimbabwe’s present crisis. A caption to the same piece described Smith ‘getting to grips with a Gatling gun’; it was a Vickers gun. Link

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    Gatling hasn’t been a *brand* of gun in quite some time but a type of gun.

    I suspect Vickers might manufacture the sort of rotating multi-barrel automatic rifle called a Gatling gun…