Except that it was the Feds and their liberal press who were initially pushing the "4 handguns and handguns only" meme until the ME and the state police held their news conference and set everyone straight.
And yet we still have supposedly intelligent people who claim that the Feds and their liberal press can't be trusted out of one side of their brain and yet trusting them out of the other. They're just stuck on stupid.
While the media is pulling every emotive trick in the book to extract all the pity it can for the victims and families in an effort to:
1) sell soap
2)deter people from rationally discussing the issues
and 3) stop anyone from digging into the facts.
Then the narrative can be tailored to the agenda, and the few who pay attention won't matter to the herd.
Whether or not this was a false flag operation, the details cannot be allowed to interfere with the official narrative, because that might mess with the agenda.