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FAKE NEWS: Media Continue to Claim Baseball Shooter Used an ‘Assault Weapon’
We now know that the attacker who opened fire on Republican congressional leaders at a baseball field in Virginia earlier this week used an SKS rifle. That didn’t stop plenty of mainstream media outlets from jumping to conclusions about the type of firearm used as soon as the news broke…with predictable and inaccurate results.
For a group of outlets that call themselves impartial purveyors of true and accurate reporting they sure do a terrible job when it comes to guns.
New York Magazine claimed that the shooter “was armed with a pistol and an M4 automatic weapon.” Not only is the type of rifle wrong but the SKS was semi-automatic. “Automatic” implies a machine gun, which is generally illegal for civilian ownership outside some hugely expensive exceptions.
Then again, asking New York Magazine to have even a passing understanding of firearms might be more than we should expect from the oh-so-well-educated, sophisticated, effete class of people who run that rag.
CBS’s initial report stated that “CBS News confirmed he used an M4 assault rifle.” That article hasn’t been updated to remove the now debunked “fact.”
A website called The Right Scoop got the scoop completely wrong, proclaiming in the title of their article that the weapon had been identified as an M4. No, no it wasn’t.
While CBS might be forgiven for hastily putting up an inaccurate post as a story breaks, the NY Daily News published an article nearly 24 hours after the actual make and model of the firearm were identified complete with a photo of an AR-15 and the caption “An M4 Colt rifle similar to the one Hodgkinson used in the shooting.”
ABC News was slightly better. They correctly identified the firearm as an SKS, but went the extra step of calling it an “assault rifle.” The specific quote: “sources told ABC News that the primary weapon used in shooting was an SKS 7.62 assault-style riflr
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We now know that the attacker who opened fire on Republican congressional leaders at a baseball field in Virginia earlier this week used an SKS rifle. That didn’t stop plenty of mainstream media outlets from jumping to conclusions about the type of firearm used as soon as the news broke…with predictable and inaccurate results.
For a group of outlets that call themselves impartial purveyors of true and accurate reporting they sure do a terrible job when it comes to guns.
New York Magazine claimed that the shooter “was armed with a pistol and an M4 automatic weapon.” Not only is the type of rifle wrong but the SKS was semi-automatic. “Automatic” implies a machine gun, which is generally illegal for civilian ownership outside some hugely expensive exceptions.
Then again, asking New York Magazine to have even a passing understanding of firearms might be more than we should expect from the oh-so-well-educated, sophisticated, effete class of people who run that rag.
CBS’s initial report stated that “CBS News confirmed he used an M4 assault rifle.” That article hasn’t been updated to remove the now debunked “fact.”
A website called The Right Scoop got the scoop completely wrong, proclaiming in the title of their article that the weapon had been identified as an M4. No, no it wasn’t.
While CBS might be forgiven for hastily putting up an inaccurate post as a story breaks, the NY Daily News published an article nearly 24 hours after the actual make and model of the firearm were identified complete with a photo of an AR-15 and the caption “An M4 Colt rifle similar to the one Hodgkinson used in the shooting.”
ABC News was slightly better. They correctly identified the firearm as an SKS, but went the extra step of calling it an “assault rifle.” The specific quote: “sources told ABC News that the primary weapon used in shooting was an SKS 7.62 assault-style riflr
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