CNN Bump Stock Screw-Up Shows Agenda More Important than Accuracy

By David Codrea

By David Codrea

USA – -(Ammoland.com)- “CNN tried to explain a #BUMPSTOCK with an animation and failed,” conservative Twitter poster @jojoh888 tweeted Sunday. “Libs deserve CNN.”

The network isn’t ridiculed as “the most busted name in news” for nothing, and its “selective reporting” sins of commission and omission have been exhaustively documented over the years by plenty of others besides me.

In this case, they were taking part in a budding bump stock ban pile-on while trying to maintain the appearance of impartial and authoritative journalists – and as the screen capture above shows, getting the information they were mass-disseminating unsurprisingly wrong.

“CNN as usual is factually incorrect,” Historic Arms LLC President Len Savage told AmmoLand Shooting Sports News. “What the CNN animation is showing is a normal M4 style adjustable stock being collapsed and then extended repeatedly. (Not to mention the grenade launcher, and silencer are distinctly different weapons under the NFA and have nothing to do with a bump stock.)

“A bump stock has a shelf or rest for the trigger finger attached to the butt stock …Read the Rest

Source:: AmmoLand