Posted on 09/09/2004 7:58:09 PM PDT by Dan from Michigan
SAF CONDEMNS ABC NEWS FRAUD IN REPORT ON SUNSET OF 'ASSAULT WEAPONS' LAW
The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) today called on ABC News anchor Peter Jennings and correspondent Bill Redeker to admit the network distorted fact during a report on the end of the so-called "assault weapons" ban that aired Wednesday evening, Sept. 8.
During that segment, video footage from the North Hollywood bank robbery shootout in March 1997 showed the robbers firing full-automatic weapons, suggesting that this type of firearm will be legal when the ban expires at midnight Sept. 13. These guns had been illegally modified, yet ABC News left the impression that such rifles will be available to the general public.
"Such firearms were illegal prior to the ban, and will be illegal after it sunsets, and ABC knows it," said SAF founder Alan Gottlieb. "ABC's research on this story was either incredibly poor or deliberately distorted. There is no other explanation. It's the same distorted reporting we saw in 1994, prior to the ban, in which the press faked footage in an attempt to portray ammunition from these guns as explosively lethal.
Reporter Redeker made an issue out of certain cosmetic features that were affected by the ban, specifically folding stocks and flash suppressors. He lamented that folding stocks make these rifles more "concealable" and the flash suppressor makes it harder to spot a shooter at night.
"These cosmetic features have nothing to do with how a particular firearm functions," Gottlieb stressed, "or how lethal it might be. That is why the 1994 ban - which only affected the appearance of these guns, not their operation - was nonsense to begin with.
"Rather than explain the law, or note federal studies that have determined this ban, as well as other gun control laws, were ineffective in reducing crime, ABC News sensationalized, and as a result fictionalized, what this ban did and what will result from the law's sunset," Gottlieb concluded. "That's not simply irresponsible reporting. It's journalistic fraud, and ABC News, Jennings and Redeker should apologize for it."
The Second Amendment Foundation is the nation's oldest and largest tax-exempt education, research, publishing and legal action group focusing on the Constitutional right and heritage to privately own and possess firearms. Founded in 1974, The Foundation has grown to more than 600,000 members and supporters and conducts many programs designed to better inform the public about the consequences of gun control. SAF has previously funded successful firearms-related suits against the cities of Los Angeles; New Haven, CT; and San Francisco on behalf of American gun owners, a lawsuit against the cities suing gun makers & an amicus brief & fund for the Emerson case holding the Second Amendment as an individual right.
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Lies are just part of a days work as they attepmt to impose their sick, fascist agenda.
Similar lies from our local CBS affiliate this evening as well.
They did at least have an interview with a local well-known gun shop owner.
And then they continued to preach that the police and the public are safer without the banned guns....
arrrggghhh...
All we can hope for at this point is for Americans to see through the hype. This is a major battle for our nation's survival. With the ban left in place, chaos and total disrespect for the true meaning of the Constitution will only continue and get worse. If the second amendment isn't enforced, then why would the first, or the others in the Bill of Rights be upheld? If one doesn't matter, none of them do!
I wonder how long Americans [us] will continue to allow Hitler's nazi propaganda arm to operate unrestricted in this country?
A free press with free ideas uncontrolled by government is one thing, but a traitorous/treasonous/seditionist press is another.
The 1st Amendment allows free speech, but where does it allow the "official" press to lie and distort truth?
The perpetrators who willingly distort fact and use lies of omission in order to further their communist agenda should be tried and incarcerated...at the very least.
Pardon my ignorance in advance if what I've suggested in unconstitutional. Of course, the courts have made a mockery out of our Constitution [per the communist manifesto] anyway.
Don't forget to search. This is the third posting of the same article under the identical title.
Don't forget - the police went to a an honest gun shop on the same block and used weapons from the store to stop the POS that robbed the bank! Imagine if the anti-gun freaks had had their way - the robbers would have got away! Thanks to our fore fathers for have the insight to write the second amendment.
And the AWB was in effect during this time period!! Gosh, you mean the criminals didn't, gasp, follow the law?
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