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CNN Reporter Completely Lies About Basic Firearms Information While Covering Catholic School Shooting
Daily Caller ^ | August 27, 2025 | Harold Hutchison

Posted on 08/27/2025 11:16:09 AM PDT by Red Badger

CNN Senior Justice Correspondent Evan Perez inaccurately claimed Wednesday that semiautomatic firearms could fire “dozens of bullets” with a single pull of the trigger while covering a Minneapolis shooting.

An active shooter opened fire during an all-school mass held by the Annunciation Catholic School on Wednesday morning, killing at least two children and injuring 17. Perez made the comments on “The Situation Room” before there was any official information about the type of firearm used.

“It was really disturbing to hear what the man we heard from the affiliate said about how long it went on,” co-host Pamela Brown said. “He said there were several minutes. Now, we don‘t know if that was just from the shooter or if law enforcement had arrived by then, or the circumstances around that. But he said it sounded like the gun was reloaded several times. It seemed like a rifle, he said, a semiautomatic rifle and it went on for several minutes.”

WATCH:

“Right. And look, that’s not, that’s not uncommon as well. These things can shoot dozens of bullets, you know, in just one trigger pull, right?” Perez said. “And so, what happens in this case is sometimes they have enough time to reload. It’s one of the most horrific things for students to be sitting there. You saw this in Uvalde. You see this in Newtown, repeatedly, where a shooter has enough time to reload and the horrific nature of this is, you know, for little kids to be facing this.”

Information on how semi-automatic firearms operate is available on numerous websites easily accessible through a simple search on the internet conducted by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

CNN did not respond to a request for comment from the DCNF about Perez’s comments.

“What has incorrectly been termed an ‘assault weapon’ is a semi-automatic firearm that fires just one bullet with each pull of the trigger (versus a fully automatic firearm — machine gun — which continues to shoot until the trigger is released),” the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) said in a fact sheet.

Under current federal law, it is illegal to possess a fully-automatic firearm that is not registered under the provisions of the National Firearms Act, according to an article on the NRA website.


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Health/Medicine; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: banglist; cnn; genderdysphoria; media; minneapolis; minnesota; missingthepoint; msm; robinwestman

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1 posted on 08/27/2025 11:16:09 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: marktwain; PROCON

Lying bastards ping!....................


2 posted on 08/27/2025 11:16:33 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

Stupid, lying bastard


3 posted on 08/27/2025 11:20:08 AM PDT by abbastanza (Oh boy. Can't wait. Go nuts kids. )
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To: Red Badger

It would be a shock if they didn’t lie.


4 posted on 08/27/2025 11:21:58 AM PDT by xp38
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To: Red Badger

It’s a lot easier to reload when no one is shooting back at you. Schools and churchs need armed employees.


5 posted on 08/27/2025 11:22:41 AM PDT by oldplayer
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To: Red Badger

Once the identity and ideology of the perp was known, it was inevitable that the MSM would turn this into a story about guns. If the perp was a “white supremacist,” the focus would be on his beliefs and influences.


6 posted on 08/27/2025 11:23:45 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Red Badger

We should only be surprised that they didn’t claim it was an AR-16 (which is one worse y’know) with a Glock switch (because Ds are trying to breach manufacturer immunity again) shooting hundreds of billets per clip.


7 posted on 08/27/2025 11:23:56 AM PDT by No.6
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To: Red Badger

Not sure what the shooter’s preferred pronouns were.

Question is will CNN check them out and use them.


8 posted on 08/27/2025 11:26:59 AM PDT by Biblebelter
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To: Steve_Seattle

So it was another tranny shooting?


9 posted on 08/27/2025 11:27:01 AM PDT by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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To: oldplayer
Schools and churchs need armed employees.

Anyone who is gender confused needs to be treated as mentally ill i.e. no guns

10 posted on 08/27/2025 11:28:41 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Red Badger

He’s not lying, just vastly ignorant, as usual.


11 posted on 08/27/2025 11:30:33 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (US spending on Ukraine over 3.5 years exceeds the all military aid to Israel over 77 years. - Grok)
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To: Red Badger

“The Glock switch is a small, often covertly marketed accessory designed to convert a standard semi-automatic Glock pistol into a fully automatic weapon”

“That’s right – with some simple modifications, it’s possible to turn your AR-15 into a fully automatic firearm.”

Maybe he was right.


12 posted on 08/27/2025 11:30:34 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: antidemoncrat

Pay no attention that if you’re caught with it, the ATF will throw the book at you.


13 posted on 08/27/2025 11:33:13 AM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: Steve_Seattle

“”””Once the identity and ideology of the perp was known, it was inevitable that the MSM would turn this into a story about guns.”””

I have been watching msnbc. It is all about the guns. We need much stricter gun laws. Blah Blah Blah.

They never mention that they don’t enforce the gun laws we already have.


14 posted on 08/27/2025 11:35:56 AM PDT by shelterguy
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To: shelterguy

Minnesota and Minneapolis already have strict gun controls laws. This CNN jerk is a moron. All those did is ensure unarmed targets.


15 posted on 08/27/2025 11:47:32 AM PDT by piytar (Remember Ashli Babbitt, Rosanne Boyland, and Corey Comperatore!)
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To: kiryandil

> Pay no attention that if you’re caught with it, the ATF will throw the book at you.<

Anyone who would shoot innocent children in a church doesn’t give a Raskin about any law. The sooner the hoplophobes learn this, the better.

EC


16 posted on 08/27/2025 11:48:42 AM PDT by Ex-Con777 (Leftists quote the Constitution like an atheist quotes the Bible)
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To: Ex-Con777

Exactly - the nutters and the criminals don’t give a Raskin about any law.


17 posted on 08/27/2025 11:52:05 AM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: Red Badger

“Under current federal law, it is illegal to possess a fully-automatic firearm that is not registered under the provisions of the National Firearms Act, according to an article on the NRA website.”
👇👇👇👇

More infringement on our God Given right!


18 posted on 08/27/2025 11:53:03 AM PDT by justme4now (Our Right's are God given and I don't need permission from politicians or courts to exercise them!)
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To: xp38
It would be a shock if they didn’t lie.

I was just going to ask, isn’t that SOP for them?

19 posted on 08/27/2025 11:54:17 AM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF ISR pilot. We are a family of aviators. )
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To: Red Badger

C-BS radio kept referring to the shooter as the “gunMAN”…. But the media is BS style protocol dictates that they referred to the shooter as gunWOMAN…. You know the preferred pronoun BS.


20 posted on 08/27/2025 11:54:53 AM PDT by Bulwinkle (Bulwinkle, a.k.a. Daffy Duck )
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