Context is key.
And after a White House meeting with the NRA, Vice President Joe Biden pointedly omitted promising an assault weapons ban that he and the president have long supported, suggesting the White House would focus first on closing loopholes on gun buyers background checks and limiting the size of ammunition cartridges.
The authoress wrote that text without quotation marks. The words are properly assumed by readers to be hers, paraphrased or otherwise. The common nature of such errors is understandable, though, with so many English classes filled with man-hating instead of useful skills.
The blame should be shared, though. That publication needs an editor with some rudimentary technical knowledge.