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'Who's checking the fact checkers?' PolitiFact and Facebook are slammed for wrongly claiming that Kyle Rittenhouse couldn't legally carry his AR-15 - after judge dropped charge and ruled he WAS within the law
UK Daily Mail ^ | November 16 2021 | JENNIFER SMITH

Posted on 11/16/2021 12:36:04 PM PST by knighthawk

PolitiFact and Facebook have been slammed for an August 2020 'fact check' that claimed it was false to say it was 'perfectly legal' for Kyle Rittenhouse to carry his AR-15 rifle at the Kenosha riot, after a judge tossed out his firearms possession charge on Monday.

The judge in the Rittenhouse case yesterday threw out the gun possession charge, ruling that the law is written in such a confusing way that it allows for the interpretation that 17-year-olds can carry guns if those gun barrels are shorter than 16 inches.

'I‘m still trying to figure out what it says, what is prohibited,' Judge Bruce Schroeder said. 'Now, I have the good fortune of having some experience and a legal education. How is your ordinary citizen supposed to acquaint herself with what this law says?'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; bias; facebook; factcheckers; kylerittenhouse; mediabias; politifact
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1 posted on 11/16/2021 12:36:04 PM PST by knighthawk
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To: knighthawk

crossing a state line has never been more sinister, nor have “full metal jacket” rounds. The gay prosecutor actually said they were designed to travel another 500 yards after they go through the target. Liberals talking about guns and ammo. Never fails. Meanwhile, our border is wide open, but crossing a state line is horrible?


2 posted on 11/16/2021 12:45:24 PM PST by cdcdawg (Let's Go, Brandon!)
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To: knighthawk

Schroeder makes the right point:

“How is your ordinary citizen supposed to acquaint herself with what this law says?”

Note that he said HER-Self.

Would Binger be up there saying that KR had no right to defend himself if he was a she?

Or would Binger put himself in the same place and say, sure, I’d let Rosenbaum tackle me, take my gun and kill me?

We all know the answer.

So does the Judge.

And maybe the women on the jury caught it the moment Binger said it.


3 posted on 11/16/2021 12:46:24 PM PST by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: knighthawk

” it allows for the interpretation that 17-year-olds can carry guns if those gun barrels are shorter than 16 inches”

No, it actually is written so it allows 17 year olds to carry long guns if those gun barrels are LONGER than 12 inches.

Leave it to the Daily Mail to write a story about inaccurate media reports and add even more inaccuracies.


4 posted on 11/16/2021 12:47:08 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: Regulator

I’ve always believed the 2nd amendment is the ultimate equalizer among the sexes.


5 posted on 11/16/2021 12:49:07 PM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: knighthawk

“’Who’s checking the fact checkers?’”

Source factcheck:

Judge didn’t rule he was within the law.


6 posted on 11/16/2021 12:50:37 PM PST by TexasGator (UF)
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To: knighthawk

The fact checkers have been telling more lies than the folks
online.


7 posted on 11/16/2021 12:51:16 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Democrats, fixing things that haven't been broken, so they don't work, for over 197 years.)
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To: knighthawk

It was within the law because the prosecution presented no evidence to the contrary. The rifle barrel was never measured.


8 posted on 11/16/2021 12:54:16 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: knighthawk
"...can carry guns if those gun barrels are shorter than 16 inches."
They got it completely upside down. The rifle barrel must be 16 inches or longer.
9 posted on 11/16/2021 12:58:14 PM PST by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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To: Boogieman

12”? ATF says SBR is considered anything 16” or under.


10 posted on 11/16/2021 12:59:38 PM PST by rickomatic ( )
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To: knighthawk

These propaganda outlets need to be charged for every penny of illegal political contributions-in-kind because that’s exactly what they are. They can’t argue ignorance because the facts are right in front of them and they intentionally promote an agenda.


11 posted on 11/16/2021 12:59:47 PM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: knighthawk
The judge in the Rittenhouse case yesterday threw out the gun possession charge, ruling that the law is written in such a confusing way that it allows for the interpretation that 17-year-olds can carry guns if those gun barrels are shorter than 16 inches.

LONGER, not shorter. Dumb limeys.

12 posted on 11/16/2021 1:07:41 PM PST by Pollard (PureBlood -- youtube.com/watch?v=VXm0fkDituE)
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To: knighthawk

Ahole liars


13 posted on 11/16/2021 1:26:22 PM PST by sauropod (Meanie Butt Daddy - No you can't)
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To: TexasGator

What are you talking about?


14 posted on 11/16/2021 1:36:52 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Boogieman

D M has/pays for leftist contributors. I don’t believe anything they say.


15 posted on 11/16/2021 1:45:32 PM PST by TribalPrincess2U
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To: knighthawk

Even Orwell didn’t imagine the “fact checkers.” He wouldn’t be surprised by them at all.


16 posted on 11/16/2021 1:47:34 PM PST by nicollo
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To: knighthawk

It begs the question why the prosecutors brought that charge at all. All they had to do was open a book and then break out a tape measure.


17 posted on 11/16/2021 3:26:24 PM PST by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: knighthawk
The law is plain as day. The judge finally dismissed the charge, but he shouldn't have said that the law is "murky" in the first place. It's clear if you read the subsections, and after all the subsections are part of the law. It's somewhat tiresome to wade through the various provisions, but anyone who wishes can look up the law in the online Wisconsin statutes and read it.

Here's the main link -- 948.60 Possession of a dangerous weapon by a person under 18.

And here's the specific weapons stuff -- 941.28 Possession of short-barreled shotgun or short-barreled rifle.

Here's the part of the main section that links to the subsection about rifle length, "(c) This section applies only to a person under 18 years of age who possesses or is armed with a rifle or a shotgun if the person is in violation of s. 941.28..."

Here's what 941.28 says about rifle length: "941.28 Possession of short-barreled shotgun or short-barreled rifle....(b) “Short-barreled rifle" means a rifle having one or more barrels having a length of less than 16 inches measured from closed breech or bolt face to muzzle or a rifle having an overall length of less than 26 inches."

Kyle's rifle was longer than that. Therefore he was not in violation of 941.28, and therefore not in violation of section 948.60.

18 posted on 11/16/2021 3:37:59 PM PST by GJones2 (Wisconsin gun law not murky -- long rifles clearly allowed to minors such as Kyle Rittenhouse)
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To: ifinnegan

“What are you talking about?”

The Rittenhouse trial.


19 posted on 11/17/2021 7:48:51 AM PST by TexasGator (UF)
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To: TexasGator

I see you are a moron who cowardly runs from his words.


20 posted on 11/17/2021 9:12:00 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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