HBO Disputes Claim Of Deceptive Editing in AR-15 Hit… But Won’t Provide Video

By Bob Owens

Jim Sullivan, one of the gun designers who helped develop the most popular rifle sold in the United States, the AR-15, claims that HBO’s clearly biased Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel episode about the AR-15 rifle selectively edited the video to completely change the context of what he said.

Within hours, HBO’s Greg Domino contacted Bearing Arms with what he claims was an accurate transcript of the Sullivan interview, and which he says shows HBO did not change the context of Sullivan’s statements.

Here is the written claim from HBO.

From HBO Spokesman, Ray Stallone:

Real Sports fairly and accurately represented Mr. Sullivan’s interview in our report. Mr. Sullivan says that we “omitted key parts” of his comments on the lethality of the civilian AR-15 as compared to that of the fully-automatic military version. That claim is untrue.

Below is the part of the interview that Mr. Sullivan is referencing. This is the unedited exchange between our correspondent, David Scott, and Mr. Jim Sullivan, on this topic:

DAVID SCOTT: “The– the essential ballistics that we’ve talked about, the lethality of the AR-15, is– is that reduced in the civilian semi-automatic mode?”

JIM SULLIVAN: “No.”

DAVID SCOTT: “It’s not?”

JIM SULLIVAN: “It’s the same.”

DAVID SCOTT: “The same?”

JIM SULLIVAN: …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms