Forgot only Conservatives are allowed to flip-flop, er.. I mean change their minds – PB/TK
The WaPo’s inventive flip-flop on suppressors – By Jazz Shaw / June 3 2017
Much like the NRA Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA), I too am old enough to remember when the Washington Post stunned us by issuing a positive fact check of New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand on the subject of suppressors, or “silencers” as the Left likes to say. She had made the long debunked claim that a weapon with a silencer is “quiet” and “Witnesses might not hear. Police will be less likely to track down the shooter.”
The WaPo quickly handed her Three Pinocchios in a lengthy analysis which included the following in the summary.
“In the meantime, although the popular name of this accessory is a silencer, foes of the law such as Gillibrand should not use misleading terms such as “quiet” to describe the sound made by a high-powered weapon with a suppressor attached. We wavered between Two and Three Pinocchios, but finally tipped to Three. There is little that’s quiet about a firearm with a silencer, unless one also thinks a jackhammer is quiet.”
This was all taking place as part of the debate over the pending Hearing Protection Act (HPA) which would move suppressors out of the paperwork jungle involved in purchasing one currently and subject them to the same backgrounds checks and other regulations which apply to shopping for any normal firearms. We don’t often get the chance to agree with the Washington Post when it comes to Second Amendment rights, so it’s great to finally find some areas of common ground.
But apparently I spoke to soon. While the fact check in question was still sitting out there for the world to see, the editorial board members (who possibly don’t read their own paper) pulled off a flip-flop worthy of an Olympic gymnast. As the NRA-ILA points out, they essentially called their own fact checkers liars.
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