Urban newspapers have, for the past 20 years, referred to multiple firearms found during a search as an “arsenal” and any rifle with a scope as a “sniper rifle”.
These papers weave the mental image of a high-rise dwelling used as a nest for terrorizing citizens. These journalists hope to sow the seeds for future firearm bans via their prose.
Yet those same papers refuse to investigate the dozens of Muslim communities here in the US, which are protected by armed men, and seem to have caches of all types of weapons.