Washington Post Botched Gun Story, Asked for Help, Refused to Correct

By Bob Owens

Several days ago, the Washington Post’s Mike Rosenwald wrote what is either a deeply ignorant or intentionally deceptive article, Gun silencers are hard to buy. Donald Trump Jr. and silencer makers want to change that.

We quickly called out the deceptive nature of the article, as did my friend Sean Davis at The Federalist.

The head on Rosenwald’s deceptive article must have been intense, because I was called by a reporter for the Washington Post that same after—now three days ago—for technical advice on how to write a major correction of this particularly idiotic statement.

But gun-control activists say silencers are getting quieter, particularly in combination with subsonic ammunition, which is less lethal but still damaging. They point to videos on YouTube in which silencers make high-powered rifles have “no more sound than a pellet gun,” according to one demonstrator showing off a silenced semiautomatic ­.22LR.

.22 LRs are of course anything but “high-powered” but the author, Mike Rosenwald, continued to argue that it was on social media quite poorly.

Then something funny happened.

Absolutely nothing.

That’s right! After calling me and asking my advice on how to write a correction, the Washington Post apparently decided that they’d simply double-down on a …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms