Category: The Media

I had my friend Jason record the ABC news story in high definition for me just in case we had a nice spread like we had with the CBS story a month or so ago. While the ABC story was poorly researched and entirely one sided, it didn’t have any goodies, and their evidence table actually had a few Kalashnikovs laid out on it.

Ryan reported on this story as well. It’s pretty clear ABC didn’t even bother to research what the Assault Weapons Ban actually did, and didn’t do, or bother to do anything other than offer John Timoney and his anti-gun pals, a forum to push their crap on a media organization who doesn’t know any better, and couldn’t be bothered to check.

UPDATE: I agree with Illspirit that it’s quite likely police were using these firearms before Timoney decided to push his agenda in the media.

Good article from an outdoor writer for the Minneapolis Star-Tribune on the use of AR-15s in hunting.  With a proper hunting legal magazine, there’s no reason I couldn’t hunt deer with my 6.8 SPC AR-15.  It’s a comfortable rifle to carry, and a comfortable rifle to shoot.  Hunting with a semi-auto isn’t legal in Pennsylvania, but in most other states, it’s fine.

Uncle refutes some media myths about castle doctrine in Texas, and points out that the hysterical media coverage might be responsible for the incident in question:

Why would he think that a law that eliminates the duty to retreat instead justifies killing two burglars that were not an imminent threat to him and were not on his property? Probably because he heard that line repeated over and over by the anti-gunners in press coverage of the bill.

Maybe now it’s time to start being factual and doing research?  Nah!  Sensationalizing stories is easier and sells more papers.

It’s quite a difference between the Philadelphia Media, which would love to see every gun owner get a knock at the door to turn them in, and doesn’t work too hard to conceal that sentiment, and the media in other parts of Pennsylvania. This Centre Daily article could easily be an NRA alert. Also this LancasterOnline article about archery bear season. I think you have to be a special kind of crazy to hunt bear with a bow. Finally, this article from Erie Times railing against the Governor’s bills. I think our governor would do well to remember that he’s Governor of Pennsylvania, not Governor of Philadelphia, and Pennsylvania is a state that loves its constitutional right to keep and bear arms.

Armed and Safe has an account of some of CNN’s past “reporting” in regards to so called assault weapons.

Looks like CNN is busy printing Brady Campaign lies about “assault weapons” once again.

He lays the blame squarely on lawmakers who allowed the assault weapons ban to expire in 2004.

Designed to be fired from the hip, assault rifles such as the AK-47 can spray at a rate of up to 600 rounds a minute in full automatic mode. It is the weapon of choice for guerillas and gangsters.

I mean, why even bother to fact check?  John Timony also makes an appearance, once again.

Target Rich Environment takes the Philadelphia Inquirer to task for basically promoting the Mothers Against Guns group.