New York Post Story Citing ‘Enormous Cache’ Of Guns Shows Issue In Journalism

By Tom Knighton

The media, by and large, doesn’t understand firearms very well. We all know this and we all see this every time they write a story about guns and get various technical aspects wrong. I’m not talking about being so hilariously wrong we mock them for years later (I’m looking at you, USA Today and your chainsaw bayonets), but the little piddling details like round capacity, rate of fire, things like that.

However, there’s a deeper one that gets mocked regularly by the gun community, but also illustrates a real problem in American journalism, at least when it comes to reporting about firearms.

Take this story here.

A Long Island plastic surgeon was caught with an enormous cache of weapons in his car — that included five fully loaded assault rifles, body armor and more than 1,600 rounds of ammunition, police said Wednesday.

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When they searched his BMW SUV, they found a staggering arms collection.

Inside the backseat and trunk were the assault rifles loaded with high-capacity magazines as well as: three handguns, 29 more high-capacity loaded magazines, a stun gun, handcuffs, full face masks, multiple military-style knives, four brass knuckles, pepper spray, scopes, binoculars and other paraphernalia, cops said.

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Source:: Bearing Arms