Well...why should gun writers be any different than writers in general? Just go to any news website - CNN, MSN, Yahoo, etc. and you'll see quickly that all the old standards of journalism, grammar, and sentence structure have gone down the tube.
The Difference:
The "general public" is for all practical purposes dumber then a box of rocks and wouldn't have any idea when a writer or a reporter was in error in the general news media. Just Watch Watters World on O'Reilly some time and you'll see exactly what I'm talking about.
Most gun enthusiasts are fairly knowledgeable about the subject and readily pick up the type of errors being discussed in this thread.
Jim
