‘New York Times’ Kicks off Coverage of NRA Convention By Lying About It

by Warner Todd Huston | April 10, 2015 11:10 am

The so-called “paper of record” is caught lying out its partisan rear end once again. This time as the National Rifle Association begins its annual convention this weekend, The New York Times kicks off its coverage of the event by lying about it.

I say lying because they didn’t just get a fact wrong. They out and out lied because what the Times said was already outed as a lie earlier in the week by several other venues. Yet the Times decided to go with the already discredited point anyway.

In fact, the paper issued two lies[1] in its first two paragraphs…

Seventy-thousand people are expected to attend the National Rifle Association’s convention opening on Friday in Tennessee, and not one of them will be allowed to come armed with guns that can actually shoot. After all the N.R.A. propaganda about how “good guys with guns” are needed to be on guard across American life, from elementary schools to workplaces, the weekend’s gathering of disarmed conventioneers seems the ultimate in hypocrisy.

There will be plenty of weapons in evidence at the hundreds of display booths, but for convention security the firing pins must be removed. So far, there has been none of the familiar complaint about infringing supposedly sacrosanct Second Amendment rights — the gun lobby’s main argument in opposing tighter federal background checks on gun buyers after the 2012 gun massacre of schoolchildren in Connecticut.

First of all the claim that no participants will be allowed to enter with their legal concealed carry guns, well that is categorically false. The NRA said[2] that anyone who has a legal permit may bring their gun into the convention hall.

As to the second lie–the one about the firing pins–Charles W. Cooke demolishes that lie…

As I noted when the New York Daily News peddled this same falsehood earlier in the week, the only guns that will have their firing pins removed are those that are presented for examination within the convention’s attendant trade show. This is standard practice. Why? Well, because the trade show guns are not for sale; they are not there to be fired; and they cannot be removed from their display cases. They exist only to demonstrate to attendees what each company has on offer.

This is how the left works. They just lie and don’t care even a tiny bit about the truth.

Endnotes:
  1. issued two lies: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/416755/new-york-times-kicks-nra-convention-coverage-massive-lie-charles-c-w-cooke
  2. The NRA said: http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/davidson%20/2015/04/07/nra-conventioneers-can-pack-heat-in-music-city-center/25419445/

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