I have to offer a mild defense of the journalistic integrity of the late Bob Brister, who in many ways was a piece of work and perhaps guilty of the occasional side slip. But not on this occasion. He stole nothing.
He didn't claim the quote for himself. He attributed it to a gunroom representative, as an illustration of a broader point he was making. Perhaps the clerk 'stole' the quote or used it without attribution. It would hardly be the first time a gun salesman left something out to overcome a potential customer's objection. Or perhaps the sales clerk didn't. In any event, an attribution to Greener would have been irrelevant to the point Brister was making. And sales patter is hardly subject to the same citation standards as scholarship published in an academic journal.
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